Federico Volpe

 

Via Mario Mantini, 12

65125 Pescara (Italy)

 

+39 3669401421 / +1 4389246856

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Federico Volpe was born in Pescara (Italy) in 1998. He holds a BA degree in Piano from the Conservatorio “L. D’Annunzio” of Pescara, an MA degree in Piano from the Conservatorio “G. B. Martini” of Bologna (2020), and an MA degree in History and Oriental Studies from the Università “Alma Mater Studiorum” of Bologna (2021). He studied Conducting at Accademia Internazionale of Imola, Fondazione Teatro “C. Coccia” of Novara, and Associazione “Spazio Musica” of Genoa-Orvieto. In addition to some experience as a concert pianist and a conductor, he has worked as a Music teacher at Scuola Secondaria di I grado “C. Pepoli” in Bologna and as a free-lance consultant for the music program Il ridotto dell’opera, broadcast by the Suisse radio RSI. He is currently attending a PhD course in Studies and Practices of the Arts (in the field of musicology) at the University of Quebec in Montreal and he is teacher of History of Italian Opera at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal. He is a member of the Società Italiana di Musicologia (SIdM), of the Observatoire Interdisciplinaire de Création et de Recherche en Musique (OICRM) and of the Société Québécoise de Recherche en Musique (SQRM).

 

Research Areas

The history of the ballad as a literary and musical genre; the representation of non-western civilizations in the European music, focusing on the relationship between opera and the Islamic world; the natural world represented in the history of music, art and literature.

 

Publications

A. BOOKS: 

• “Il più bel fior già cadde”. L’opera lirica e il mondo islamico: percorsi di approfondimento, Roma, Istituto per l’Oriente “Carlo Alfonso Nallino”, 2023
• Storia umanistica della natura. Un’antologia letteraria, artistica e musicale, Lago (CS), Il Sileno, 2023.
• La ballata. Storia di una forma letteraria e musicale, Merone (CO), Manzoni, 2021.

   

C. ESSAIS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Entre stéréotypes et réalité : représentations et significations de l’Orient dans l’opéra italien, in L’Opéra. Revue québécoise d’art lyrique, 33, 2023, pp. 33-37.
• Music in the Present Tense. Rossini’s Italian Operas in Their Time par Emanuele Senici, in Revue musicale OICRM, 10, 1, pp. 241-247.
• Temi e problemi dell’Antropocene nell’ottica della musica moderna e contemporanea: un’interpretazione strumentale e testuale da Debussy ai giorni nostri, in Dattilo V., De Pascale F. (ed.), Filosofi(e) Semiotiche, 9, 1, Lago (CS), Il Sileno, 2022, pp. 89-98.
• Idyll and threat. Man-nature relationship in the history of music, art and literature, in Travis C., Valentino V., Narratives in the Anthropocene Era, Lago (CS), Il Sileno, 2021, pp. 107–121.
• Ricostruzione dell’evoluzione della ballata dal Dolce stil novo a Fryderyk Chopin, in AA. VV., Divulgazione Audio Testuale, 8, 5, Lago (CS), Il Sileno, aprile 2021, pp. 118–137.  

 

D. REVIEWS

• Deux siècles de musique vocale : la recherche de l’originalité de St-Gelais et Pelletier, L’Opéra. Toute l’actualité québécoise de l’art lyrique (https://www.revuelopera.quebec/), 23 ottobre 2023.

 

F. CONFERENCES: 

• “La ballata dalle origini al XX secolo: percorso storico e principi di analisi” (Conservatorio di Musica “G. B. Martini”, Bologna, 12 gennaio 2024)
  Ente organizzatore: Conservatorio di Musica “G. B. Martini, Bologna”
  All’interno del progetto “Lezioni di analisi”.
• “Introduction à l’opéra italien”  (Université du Québec à Montréal, 1 novembre 2023)
  Ente organizzatore: Université du Québec à Montréal (École de langues)
  All’interno del corso “Introduction à la langue et à la culture italiennes”.
• “L’‘Oriente’ islamico nell’opera italiana: analisi musicali e testuali a patire da L’italiana in Algeri” (Conservatorio di Musica “V. Bellini”, Catania, 28 ottobre 2023)
  Ente organizzatore: Società Italiana di Musicologia (SIdM)
  All’interno del XXX Convegno Annuale della Società Italiana di Musicologia.
• “L’italiana in Algeri de Rossini : critique et censure dans les rapports entre opéra et politique” (Université Laval, Quebec City, 18 maggio 2023)
  Ente organizzatore: Société Québécoise de Recherche en Musique (SQRM)
  All’interno del convegno “Musique en dialogues” (gala annuale).
• “Censorship and Opera in Fascist Italy and Putin’s Russia: the Study Cases of La favola del figlio cambiato by Gian Francesco Malipiero and Ruslan i Ljudmila by Mikhail Glinka” (Videoconferenza, 12 febbraio 2023)
  Ente organizzatore: Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
  All’interno del convegno “Music and Censorship in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Historical, Political and Social Context”.
• “L’opéra italien : les voix, les lieux, l’histoire” (Université du Québec à Montréal, 7 febbraio 2023)
  Ente organizzatore: Université du Québec à Montréal (Département de musique e École de langues).
• “The Abduction from the Seraglio: a historical-cultural reading” (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 1 luglio 2022)
  Enti organizzatori: University of Surrey (Department of Music and Media); Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (IAGMR)
  All’interno del convegno “Performance Studies Network – 6th International Conference”.
• “I Lombardi alla prima Crociata: l’Islam medievale rappresentato da Giuseppe Verdi” (Videoconferenza, 15 maggio 2022)
  Enti organizzatori: Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca; Research Group ERASMUSH, Universidad de Oviedo; Palazzetto Bru Zane, Centre de musique romantique française, Venezia
  All’interno del convegno “Musical Exoticism in the Long 19th Century – International Conference”. 

 

 

Updated on

4/01/2024