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Dr Candida Mantica 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

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Dr Candida Mantica is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton and the Managing Editor of the Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Casa Ricordi).

Following my PhD at the University of Southampton (2013), I returned here as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019, working on a research project entitled DiCrEd (Towards A Digital Critical Edition of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi), which involves the completion of the first critical edition of the 1865 version of Verdi’s Macbeth in French, as well as the development of a digital critical edition of its piano-vocal score, in collaboration with the University of Paderborn. My edition of Macbeth (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi) has been used at the latest Festival Verdi (Parma, 2020), where the opera received its modern premiere in French, obtaining the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” (2020). I also serve as the Managing Editor of the Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Milan, Casa Ricordi), for which I am preparing the critical edition of Adelson e Salvini.

I have published my work in numerous musicological journals and volumes including Opera Quarterly, Music and Letters, Il Saggiatore musicale, Oxford Bibliographies, The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia, Bollettino di studi belliniani, Revue Belge de Musicologie, Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi, and others. The edition of Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida  that I completed for Opera Rara led to the opera’s world premiere in a concert performance (London, Royal Opera House, 2018), and to its first staged presentation (Bergamo, Donizetti Opera, 2019). The latter production has been awarded the “Premio Abbiati” (2019). I regularly deliver papers at leading international conferences, and collaborate with prominent opera companies and festivals, including the Royal Opera House, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Welsh National Opera, the Donizetti Opera Festival, the Festival Verdi, the ABAO Bilbao Opera, and others. As an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, in 2018 I organized a Symposium on self-borrowings in nineteenth-century opera, whose selected proceedings will merge into a monographic issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review that I am currently editing.

After studying voice at the Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Cilea (Reggio Calabria), I earned my Bachelor’s (2005) and Master’s (2007) degrees in Musicology from the University of Cremona and went on to receive my PhD in Music from the University of Southampton (2013), within the AHRC-funded ‘FICTOS (Franco-Italian Cultural Transfer Opera and Song)’ project, co-directed by Prof. Mark Everist and Prof. Francesco Izzo. Subsequently I was Research Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, within the ‘OPERA – Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Individual Editions’ project led by Prof. Thomas Betzwieser (2014–2016), and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University (2016–2018). I have taught at the University of Southampton (2009–2012) and at the Goethe University (2015–2016).

Qualifications

PhD in Music, University of Southampton, 2013

MA in Musicology, University of Pavia-Cremona, 2007

BA in Musicology, University of Pavia-Cremona, 2005

Diploma in Voice, Conservatorio di Musica “Francesco Cilea”, Reggio Calabria, 2002

Appointments held

2019–2021                   Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southampton

2015–                          Managing Editor, Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Milan, Casa Ricordi)

2016–2018                   Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University

2015–2016                   Lecturer for “Opera and Film,” Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

2014–2016                   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, OPERA – Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Individual Editions Project, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

2012–2014                   Research Assistant, University of Southampton (attached to various projects)

2009–2012                   Teaching Assistant for “Antique Musique Roadshow” 1 and 2, University of Southampton

2008                            Research Assistant, University of Southampton

Research interests

My research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century Italian and French opera, concentrating on a variety of issues surrounding its creation and dissemination, including compositional process, translation, and reception. My work centres in particular on the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Giuseppe Verdi. Further research interests include film studies and the encounter of opera with film.

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Book Chapters

  • Mantica, C. (2017). Vincenzo Bellini. In K. van Orden (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Music (Oxford Bibliographies in Music). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0201
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Alberto Carrara. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Angiolo Carrara. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Carlo Del Signore. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Cesare Correnti. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Florence. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Gabriella Carrara Verdi. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Gino Capponi. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Giulio Rezzasco. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Giuseppe Alinovi. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Italo Pizzi. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Luigi Granci. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Luigi Toccagni. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Narcisse Girard. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Parma. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.
  • Mantica, C. (2013). Teatro della Pergola. In R. Montemorra Marvin (Ed.), The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Cambridge University Press.

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