Curriculum Vitae

Domínio da especialização e actuais interesses de investigação

/Domain of Specialization and Current Research Interests

 

Historical Musicology,

History of Opera,

Music Aesthetics and Criticism

Opera Studies,

History of Music and Technology

 

Formação Académica/Education

1999 Ph. D. Musicology, Princeton University.

1994 Master of Arts, Musicology, Princeton University.

1992 Master of Music The University of Texas at Austin (GPA 4.0)

1989 Licenciatura, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, com 17 valores.

 

 

Participação em projectos/Participation in Research Projects

 

Ongoing research project on the history of the intersections between music and technology on the modern operatic stage. A book, provisionally titled, Opera's Techno-Aesthetics : On the Lyric Culture in Nineteenth-century France , is in preparation.

 

2007 to the present. Member of the board of directors of CESEM. Organizer of the research center´s music colloquia series (since 2006).

 

2008 - Sponsoring partner of a European research network on the theme “Singing Actor/Acting singer: Performance, Representation and Presence on the Operatic Stage, 1600 to the present.” The three main partners in the project are Dr. Susan Rutherford (University of Manchester), Dr. Clemens Risi (Freie Universität, Berlin) and myself. The project has been awarded 14,000.00 Euro funding from the the European Science Foundation for the organization of a Exploratory Workshop program which will take place in Manchester, 23-25 June 2008. (http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops/humanities-sch/workshops-detail.html?ew=6722)

 

2007-2010 - Researcher in the three-year multi-institutional collaborative project “The Teatro de S. Carlos: Performing Arts in Portugal. The project covers musical editions of Portuguese opera, studies of operatic iconography, performing practice and staging in Portugal. It is funded by the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal and began autumn 2007.

 

2007-2010 - Researcher in the three-year project “The Recording Industry in Portugal.” My participation in the project consists of studying the early history of opera recording in Portugal. The project is funded by the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal and is to begin in 2008.

 

2007 - Co-Organizer, with Karen Henson (Columbia University) of “Technologies of the Diva” an Interdisciplinary, International Conference, held at Columbia University, March 2007.

 

2002 to the present - Referee for Latin American Music Review (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge U.K.), e Cambridge Opera Journal (Cambridge, U.K.)

 

2006 - Participating member of the research network “Staging the Feminine: the arts of the prima donna 1720-1920,” lead by the School of Music and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at University of Leeds UK.

 

2006 to the present - Scientific consultant to Editorial Bizâncio and the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Portugal.

 

2004-2005 - Visiting scholar at the Faculty of Music Cambridge University, to work on book project "Opera's Techno-aesthetics"

 

 

Publicações Relevantes/Main Publications

 

Teses / Thesis

Publicações Relevantes/Main Publications

 

Teses / Thesis

"L'Africaine and the End of Grand Opera," Ph. D. dissertation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1999.

 

"The Piano Variations and Fantasias of João Domingos Bomtempo" Master's report, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 1992.

 

Artigos em revistas de circulação internacional com arbitragem científica / Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees

 

2007 -“How Musical is Gesture? Mary Ann Smart. 'Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera'” Current Musicology 84 (December, 2007): 127-138.

2006 - "Grand Opera Before Wagner" The Journal of the American Liszt Society 57 (2006): 35-38.

2002- “Aida's flutes” Cambridge Opera Journal 14 (Summer, 2002): 177- 200.

1999 - Review of Opera and Politics by John Bokina (New Haven: Yale University press, 1997) for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30 (Autumn, 1999): 300-301.

1999a - "Laughing at History: The Third Act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine" Cambridge Opera Journal 11 (Summer 1999): 39-76.

 

 

Artigos em revistas nacionais com arbitragem científica / Papers in national periodicals with referees

 

2002- “L'Africaine's Savage Pleasures: Operatic Listening and the Portuguese Historical Imagination” Revista de Musicologia Portuguesa 10 (2000):151-180.

1992- "A Modinha, o quotidiano e a tradição musical portuguesa na segunda metade do século XVIII" Revista de Musicologia Portuguesa 1 (Lisbon, 1992): 67-74, proceedings of the Encontros de Musicologia Ibérica, (Lisbon, 1989).

 

Edição Musical / Music Edition

 

Vinte Modinhas de João Manuel da Camâra . Lisbon: Musicoteca, 2000.

 

Outras publicações / Other publications

 

2006 - "French Opera before Wagner" in The Franz Liszt Bard Festival . Annendale: Bard, p. 36-39.

2001 - "Capdeville, Constança" in Stanley Sadie, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . London: Macmillan.

1994 - "Capdeville, Constança;" "Sousa, Berta Alves de" in The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . London: Macmillan.

 

Many more articles, CD reviews, program notes and program scripts written for the weekly newspaper O Expresso (2006), Festival de Música de Leiria (2006), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (1989-1997), RDP-2 (1997) and Lisboa 94 (1994).

 

Comunicações/ Conferences and Papers

2008- "Bodies out of nature" European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop "Singing Actor/Acting Singer: Performance, Representation and Presence on the Operatic Stage , 1600-2007," University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 25-27 June 2008.

2008a -"Amália's Voice: Fado and the Filmic Apparatus," Congresso Internacional "Fado, Percursos e Perspectivas," Lisboa, 18 a 21 Junho de 2008.

2008b-"A Voz d'Amália", Colóquios "Música, Cultura e Sociedade ," Instituto de Etnomusicologia, FCSH, 27 de Março 2008.

2007 - "Meyerbeer in the Hoffmannian Labyrinth" Opera Colloquia, Harvard University, 15 March 2007.

2007a - "On the Properties of Gems and Voice" Conference Technologies of the Diva, Columbia University, N. Y., 22-23 March 2007.

2006 - "A Diva como Phantasmagoria", Colóquios A Música Discute-se, , FCSH-UNL, 4 April 2006.

2006a - "Glittering forms: Gounod's Air des bijoux", Diva Cultures Symposium, The University of Leeds, 12-13 July 2006.

2006b - "Diva as Phantasmagoria", Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society to be held at Los Angeles, 2-4 November, 2006.

2006c - Participant, Mesa redonda, Simpósio Internacional “Mozart and Portugal,” CESEM/Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, November 2006.

2005 - "Technologies of the Diva" Annual Meeting of the American Society at Washington D. C., November 2005.

2004 - "The Diva as Phantasmagoria" Cambridge University Faculty of Music Colloquia, June 2004.

2001 - “A Voz do Damâso: 'A Africana' como fonte do discurso decadantista de Eça de Queiroz,” invited lecture delivered before the Associação Portuguesa de Musicologia, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2001.

2001a - “Aida's flutes” Primal Scenes: A Conference in Celebration of the Verdi Centennial, The University of California at Berkeley, 2001.

2001b - "As Flautas da Aida", Conferência no Centenário da Morte de Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa, December 2001.

1999 - "Murder and Schipwreck in Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine," Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Kansas City, Missouri, U. S. A., November 1999.

1998 - “Music in Dante's World,” invited lecturer for the Council for the Humanities, Princeton University, New Jersey, U. S. A., 1998.

1997 - "E riu-se da História: o terceiro acto d'Africana de Meyerbeer", Encontros da Sociedade Portuguesa de Musicologia, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1997.

1997a - "Drama and Myth in the Genesis of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine," Tenth International Conference on 19th-century Music, Bristol, England, July 1997.

1997b - “The Birth of Opera,” invited lecturer for the Council for the Humanities, University, New Jersey, 1997.

1993 - "Sociedade Filarmónica (1822-27): Entre o nosso passado e a História de Outros", Encontros da Sociedade Portuguesa de Musicologia, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993.

1990 - "A Modinha, o quotidiano e a tradição musical portuguesa na segunda metade do século XVIII," Encontros de Musicologia Ibérica, Lisbon, Portugal, 1990.

 

Outras conferências/Other invited talks

 

2008- "Lanternas mágicas, jóias, divas e automata: as chaves da modernidade operática nos 'Contos de Hoffmann'", Escola Música Óscar da Silva, Matosinhos, 29 de Março 2008.

2006 - “Cosi fan tutte” RDP-2, Direct transmission, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, October 2006.

2006a -“Piano e paisagens interiores,” Festival de Música de Leiria, Leiria, June 2006.

1997- “On Portuguese Modernism: Luis de Freitas Branco and Integralismo Lusitano,” New Jersey Symphony, Newark, 1997.

1995- Scripts for “Noites de ópera”, RDP-2, Lisbon, 1995.

1989- "A Expansão e a Cultura Musical Portuguesa - da Península à África e ao Brasil," II Jornadas de Música dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, Ovar, 1989.

 

Interviews

 

2006-“Women and Music” Camara Clara , RTP-2, 7 July 2006.

2000-Adriana Meucci, “All Latin Music—Pop to Jazz to Classical—Getting Attention. Butler, Tufts, and Passaic CCC Heeding the Call” The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 10 (July, 2000), 20-22.

 

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