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Dr Barbara Gentili
Surrey Future Senior Fellow
Biography
I graduated in Law at the University of Perugia and in Opera Singing at the Milan Conservatoire. I gained my PhD in Musicology at the Royal College of Music in London in 2019.
I am an opera historian and singer who combines embodied methodologies with critical-historiographical perspectives. Through this approach, I explore the relation between voice - intended as a cultural, mediated and performative phenomenon - and constructs of gender, race, class and identity.
I sang leading roles in major Italian opera houses and have been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2020-2023) and short-term Fellowships from the Beinecke Library at Yale University (2022) and the British School at Rome (2020).
I am an active concert singer and have written about opera and singers for the Spectator, Opera Magazine, OperaClick and Il giornale della musica.
Professor Natasha Loges
Researcher
Biography
- Song
- Singers
- Performance
- 19th and 20th centuries
Orestis Papaioannou
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Non bel canto vocal enunciations
- Opera
- Musical theatre
- Historical recordings
- Voice and politics
Dr Hannah Scott
Researcher
Biography
- Paris
- Popular music history
- 19th century
- Stage costume
- Embodiment
Dr Caroline Gleason-Mercier
Researcher
Biography
- French opera and theatre
- Gender and sexuality
- Early modern opera
Dr George Kennaway
Researcher
Biography
- Acting
- Cellists
- Rhetoric
Dr Ruth Hansford
Researcher
Biography
- Foreign languages
- Listening
- Opera
- Art song
Ashley Stein
Student
Biography
- Voice
- Gender
- Performance
- Electronic music
- Queer theory
Salomeja Petronyte
Student
Biography
- Postvoice
- Voice
- Contemporaneity
- Post bel canto
- Postopera
Dr Guro von Germeten
Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Gender
- Musical theatre
- Taste
Professor Kordula Knaus
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Historically informed performance
- Performance studies
- Body
Professor Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Researcher
Biography
- Zarzuela
- Early recordings
- Medieval singing
- HIP
Mara Lane
Student
Biography
- Separation of voice and gesture in operatic culture in Paris since the late 18th c.
- Shifting relationships between onstage and the backstage
Dr Clare Chandler
Researcher/Practitioner
Biography
- Musical Theatre
- Feminism
- Performer training
Eliseu Mera
Researcher
Biography
- Art song
- Singing instruction
Professor Richard Wistreich
Researcher
Biography
- Pre-Romantic singing
- Voice and identity
- Early modern vocal training
- Vocal discipline and colonisation
- Sociability of ensemble singing
Matthew Horrigan
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Stage banter
- Pop song
- Game communities
- Communication theory & practice
Dr Catherine Haworth
Researcher
Biography
- Singing
- Audiovisual media
- Identity
- Musicology
Dr Roberto Scoccimarro
Researcher
Biography
- Verdi
- 18th century opera
- 19th century opera
Dr Hilary Metzger
Researcher/Performer
Biography
- HIP
- Recitative
- Opera
- Recordings
- Romantic
Dr Litha Efthymiou
Researcher
Biography
- Music theatre
- Opera
- Devising
- Embodied music cognition
- Gesture
Marjo Suominen
Student
Biography
- Baroque Opera and Dance Forms in Opera
- Musical Affects
- Music Rhetoric
- Musical Semiotics
Dr Daniele Palma
Researcher
Biography
- Operatic singing
- History of singing pedagogy
- Voice studies
- Performance studies
- Media archaeology
Dr Colleen Renihan
Researcher
Biography
- Lineage
- Transmission
- Temporality
- Opera
- Pedagogy
Phineas Magwati
Researcher
Biography
- Choral
- Dance
- Musicology
- Ethnomusicology
- Community music
Professor Paulo Kühl
Researcher
Biography
- Nineteenth century opera
- Opera singers
- Libretti
- Translations and adaptations
- Iconography
Christopher Redwood
Enthusiast
Biography
- Spoken and singing voice
Dr Florian Scheding
Researcher
Biography
- Music
- Migration
- Refugees
- Cabaret
Dr Ivan Ćurković
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- 18th century
- G. F. Handel
- 20th century
- Central Europe
Dr Alessandra Palidda
Researcher
Biography
- Music publishing
- Music and media
- Opera production and market
- Opera and transnationalism
Dr Cristina Scuderi
Researcher
Biography
- Opera Studies
- Music Networks
- Historical Musicology
Professor Sarah Hibberd
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- 19th century
- Singers
- Paris
- London
Professor Clair Rowden
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Singers
- Material cultures
- Jewellery
- Reception
Richard Strivens
Student
Biography
- Singers
- Opera
- Contemporary
- 1840 to 1950
- German
Xinyi Luo
Student
Biography
- Vocal Techniques
- Art Songs
- Character Development in Opera
Dr Mary Caldwell
Researcher
Biography
- medieval voice
- religious ritual
- sound
- hagiography
- song
Dr Michael Kinney
Researcher
Biography
- Vocal aging
- Disability
- Performance aesthetics
- Opera
- Popular musics
Dr Joshua Neumann
Researcher
Biography
- Interpretations Analysis
- Digital Musicology
- Audio Archaeology
- Classical Singing
- Forensic Musicology
Dr Brian Fairley
Researcher
Biography
- Caucasus
- Polyphony
- Physical theatre
- Ethnography
- Recording Technology
Dr Karen Henson
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Opera and music-theatrical performance
- Opera and technology
Louisa Léo
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Radio
- Interview
- Theatricality
- Voice
- Dramaturgy
Elaine Fitz Gibbon
Student/Researcher
Biography
- 20th Century
- Musiktheater
- Experimental & avant-garde practices
Dr Madison Drace
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Video games
- Film
- Television
- Opera
- Performer identity
Jeff Dailey
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Shakespeare
Dr Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Singers
- Italy
- Reception
Professor Christina Fuhrmann
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Bach Reception
Dr Anston Bosman
Researcher
Biography
- Early modern theatre
- Indigenous theatre
Ben Russman
Student
Biography
- Broadway/West End
- Popular music
Dr Ian Sapiro
Researcher
Biography
- Musicals
Joao Marcos Copertino Pereira
Student
Biography
- Opera
- Performance
- Nineteenth-Century
- Literature
Christina Paine
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Theatre
- Voice
- Feminism
- National identity
- Politics
Professor Janina Müller
Researcher
Biography
- Music
- Sound
- Media
- Politics
Dr Alan Maddox
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- 18th century
- Antonio Caldara
- Recitative
- Rhetorical performance practice
Chinasa Ezugha
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Glossolalia
- Religion
- Theatre
Cathy Lucas
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Historical voice imitation technologies
- Voice & language science
- The age of revolutions
- Relationships between music & speech
- Voice ideals & power
Professor Jacques Dupuis
Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Identity
- Opera
- Genre
- Popular theater
Dr Tom Parkinson
Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Vocal technologies
- Theatre sound
- Music
Dr Riccardo La Spina
Researcher/Collector
Biography
- Singers
- Historical recordings
- Opera
- Folk vocality
- Classical vocality
Dr Rachel Lumsden
Researcher
Biography
- Women composers
- Gender
- Feminism
- Opera
- Musicals
Dr Kirby Haugland
Researcher
Biography
- Eighteenth-Century Opera
- Nineteenth-Century Opera
- Localization
- Translation
- Stage Production
- Music in Central Europe
Professor Edward Venn
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Representation
- Analysis
Dr Timothy Bostwick
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Jenny Lind
- Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Voice
Dr Marcelle Pierson
Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Modernism
- Melody
- Song
- New music
Dr Antonella D'Ovidio
Researcher
Biography
- Women singers and musicians
- Musical patronage
- Opera studies (17th-18th centuries)
Professor Martha Feldman
Researcher
Biography
- Opera
- Media
- Callas
- Castrati
- Bel canto
Vanessa Romao
Student
Biography
- Gender
- Authorship
- Extended Vocal Techniques
- Modernism
- Technology
Zane Larson
Student/Researcher
Biography
- Musicals
- Masculinity
- Queerness
Becky Smith
Industry Expert
Biography
- Voice
- Music
- Opera
Jonathan Reus
Researcher, Enthusiast , Artist/Composer
Biography
- Voice AI/computing
- Live performance
- Sonic data/archival ecologies
- Music technology
- Cultural studies
Professor Hilary Poriss
Researcher
Biography
- Divas culture
- Opera
Rosella Trobemettoni
Enthusiast
Biography
- opera
Teresa Martino
Enthusiast
Biography
- opera
Professor Giovanna Carugno
Researcher
Biography
- History of vocal pedagogy
- Voice for musical theatre
- Voice in music education
Dr Chris McRae
Researcher
Biography
- Listening
- Sound and performance
- Music performance
- Embodied performance practice
- Creative pedagogy
Peter Koch Gehlshøj
Student
Biography
- Opera
- Singspiel
- Music Theatre
- Opera Comique
- Queer Voices
Researcher
John Warburton
Senior Lecturer
Dr Victoria Johnson
Researcher
Biography
- Voice
- Sacred
- Speech
- Singing
- Silence
Dr Emmanuela Wroth
Researcher
Biography
- Celebrity studies
- Women performers
- Critical race theory
- Eighteenth-century studies
- Nineteenth-century studies
miss Chris Palmer
Head of Voice and Senior Lecturer at GSA, personal tutor, staff mentor for SFHEA
Dr Jed Wentz
Researcher/Practitioner
Biography
- Declamatorium
- Declamation
- Gesture
- Acting 1680-1930
Dr Ferenc János Szabó
Researcher
Biography
- Early sound recordings and discography
- Performance practice of opera and operetta
- Cabaret songs in performance
- Crossover phenomena in vocal performance
Professor Francesco Izzo
Researcher
Biography
- Verdi
- Textual criticism
- Performance practice
Jingwei Hu
Student
Biography
- Transnational opera
- Wagner
- Opera reception
Yufan Wang
Student
Biography
- Opera,
- Reception of Western opera in China
Jessica Edgar
Student
Biography
- Age
- Timbre
- Choir
- Gender
Mhairi Lawson
Researcher/Practitioner
Biography
- Bel canto sources in 18th century editions of arias
- Ballads and Scottish traditional songs
- Domenico Corri
- treatises, graces, messa di voce
Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Researcher/Enthusiast
Biography
- Early 19th century French opera
Christie Finn
Researcher
Biography
- Song
- Extended vocal technique
- Experimental music
- Classical voice
- Gender
Faye Rigopoulou
Researcher
Biography
- Voice Studies
- Musical Theatre
- Female Ageing
- Voice Training in Theatre
Dr Gianni Fidanza
Researcher
Biography
- Library
- Archiving
Dr Karen Quigley
Researcher
Biography
- Embodied voice
- Linklater
- Pedagogy
- Feminism
Bingqing Chen Chen
Researcher
Biography
- Sound
- Philosophy, schizoanalysis
- Zen
- Contemporary
- Postcolonial
Madison Spahn
Student
Biography
- French song
- Female performers and composers
- Franco-American musical exchange
Anne Kauppala
Researcher
Biography
- Historical performance analysis
- Digital humanities
- Soprano voice
- Grand opera
- Opera politics
Caryl Mann
Researcher
Biography
- Music
- Community
- Care
- Diversity
- Place
Sophie Rashbrook
Opera Industry Professional
Biography
- Audiences
- Historical opera
- Opera crossover into other fields
- Dramaturgy
- Opera and technology
Dr Kimberly Monzon
Researcher
Biography
- Voice science
- Vocal pedagogy
- Vocal hygiene
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