
Dr Tommaso Sabbatini
MA, PhD
Current positions
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department of Music
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Research interests
I am interested in nineteenth-century Parisian theatre with music — including, but also beyond, opera and operetta. For my PhD dissertation I studied féerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the century. My postdoctoral project at Bristol looks at the exchanges and parallels between fin-de-siècle Parisian féerie and late Victorian spectacular theatre with music in London, particularly the Christmas pantomime.
My other work is preoccupied with French music and theatre in a global perspective and with the material reality of theatre production. I have done research on the transatlantic circulation of performers and repertoire, on the influence of French opera in Italy and Britain, on the Atlantic World context of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, and I am preparing a critical edition of the staging manual for the French première of Puccini’s Tosca.
Qualifié aux fonctions de Maître de conférences (section 18).
Publications
Selected publications
01/08/2024Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Recent publications
01/01/2025Rivisitazioni del canone operistico in due esordi letterari del 2023
“Conosco il mestiere”
Louise
19th-Century Music
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Verdi, Puccini, and Les Huguenots, Act 4
Tra ragione e pazzia
Réunion des thèmes, duo nocturne…: modelli francesi nel Mefistofele di Boito
“Ecco il mondo”