Emanuele Senici is Professor of Music History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He studied musicology at the University of Pavia, King’s College London, and Cornell University. His research interests are in Italian opera of the long nineteenth century, from Mozart to Puccini, and in the theory and historiography of opera.

La clemenza di Tito di Mozart. I primi trent’anni, 1791-1821 (Brepols, 1997), editor; The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor (with Alessandra Campana and Mary Ann Smart); Donizetti a Casa Ricordi. Gli autografi teatrali (Fondazione Donizetti, 1998), co-editor (with Mary Ann Smart); Cambridge Opera Journal (2003-), articles and book chapters on operatic genres, opera and queer studies, and works by Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi in Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly, Il saggiatore musicale, The Cambridge Companion to Verdi, Enciclopedia della musica Einaudi, Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli.