Stefano La Via Author & Editor

ELLEN ROSAND, George A. Saden Professor of Music Emerita at Yale (1992-2014), is the author of Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (1991), and Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (2007). She also edited Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage (2013), is General Editor of Cavalli Opere, a critical edition of the operas of Francesco Cavalli, and founded the Yale Baroque Opera Project, an undergraduate opera company, in 2006, with the support of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Stefano La Via is Professor of "Storia della Poesia per musica" and "Storia della Canzone d’autore" at the University of Pavia, Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage (Cremona). Educated at the Universities of Rome and Princeton, he has published essays on the relationship between poetry and music in various historical periods, with particular reference to 16th-century Madrigal, 17th-/18th-century Opera, Auteur Song in Europe and the Americas.