- Roger Parker
Roger Parker (born
London United Kingdom ,2 August ,1951 ) is an Englishmusicologist , and is currentlyThurston Dart Professor of Music atKing's College London .He studied at the
University of London , first atGoldsmiths' College , then atKing's College London . In 1982, he moved toCornell University in upstateNew York , where he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. In 1994 he came back toEngland to become a Lecturer in Music (later Professor) and Fellow ofSt Hugh's College, Oxford . In 1999 he became Professor of Music atCambridge University , where he was a Fellow ofSt John's College and (in 2005-6) Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities. In 2002 he was the VisitingErnest Bloch Lecturer at theUniversity of California, Berkeley ; in 2007 he was a visiting scholar at theInstitute for Advanced Study at Princeton.Roger Parker's work has centred on
opera , in particular Italian opera of the nineteenth century. For ten years he was founding co-editor (with Arthur Groos) of the "Cambridge Opera Journal", and he continues as General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the "Donizetti Critical Edition".He received the "Premio Giuseppe Verdi" in 1986, was a
Guggenheim Fellow in 1986-7, and in 1991 was awarded theDent Medal of the Royal Musical Association.In 2007 he became Professor of Music at
Gresham College , London, in which post he gives free public lectures.Recent Publications
* "The New Grove Guide to
Verdi and his Operas" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
* "Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio" (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
* “The Opera Industry”, in Jim Samson, ed., "The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music" (Cambridge, 2002), 87-117
* “Philippe and Posa Act II: The Shock of the New”, "Cambridge Opera Journal", 14/1-2 (2002), 133-47
* "GaetanoDonizetti , Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali", in "Le opere di Gaetano Donizetti" (Milan: Ricordi, 2002; vocal score, 2003). Joint editor with Anders Wiklund
* "Pensieri per un maestro: Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli" (Turin: Einaudi, 2002). Joint editor with Stefano La ViaExternal links
* [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/text.asp?PageId=30 Roger Parker] at Gresham College
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