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B ibl iogra p hy 171 contRibUtoRs’ biogRAphies geOFFRey buRgess is a freelance scholar and Adjunct professor at the eastman school of music. An active baroque oboist, he has performed extensively in europe, Australia, and the UsA with renowned orchestras such as Les Arts Florissants. his doctoral dissertation on ritual in French baroque opera (cornell University, 1997) won the Donald J. grout Award. his book The oboe (yale University press, 2007; with bruce haynes) has become a standard reference work and won the bessaraboff prize from the American musical instrument society. An earlier version of his contribution to this volume was presented at the annual meeting of the society for seventeenthcentury music (Rochester, ny, 25 April 2009). bRunO FORment is postdoctoral Fellow (FWo) at ghent University and Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit brussel. his essays on operatic poetry, music, and stage design appeared in international journals like Early music and the Journal of seventeenth-century music, and in the volume Ancient drama in music for the modern stage (oxford University press, 2010). he is the recipient of grants and awards from the belgian American educational Foundation, the Fulbright-hays commission, the goldberg early music Foundation, and the swiss musicological society. his chapter derives from a paper delivered at the twelfth international biennial conference on baroque music (Warsaw, 29 July 2006). RObeRt c. KetteReR is professor of classics at the University of iowa and former vice president of the American handel society. he is the author of Ancient Rome in early opera (University of illinois press, 2009) and the co-editor of Crossing the stages: the production, performance and reception of ancient theater (Syllecta classica, x, 1999). Recent publications include articles in the Händel-Jahrbuch and the International journal of the classical tradition, as well as a chapter in Ancient drama in music for the modern stage (2010). he read an earlier draft of his contribution to this book as howard serwer Lecturer at the American handel Festival (centre college, 28 February 2009). JeAn-FRAnçOis LAttARicO is professor of italian Literature and opera history at the Université ‘Jean-monnet’ of saint-étienne. he recently published a translation of Francesco pona’s novel La Messalina (Les translatives, 2009) and a critical edition 172 Bibliography of busenello’s unpublished libretto Il viaggio d’Enea all’inferno (palomar, 2010). he is currently preparing monographs on busenello and the Accademia degli incogniti. originally entitled “Lo scherno degli dei: mythe et dérision dans le dramma per musica du xViie siècle,” his contribution to this book was presented in the colloquium The embodied myth in the dramma per musica (brussels, 7 December 2006). ReinhARd stROhm is emeritus professor of music at the University of oxford and emeritus Fellow of Wadham college. he has published widely on late-medieval music, eighteenth-century opera, and music historiography. his recent books include Dramma per musica: Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century (yale University press, 1997) and The operas of Antonio Vivaldi (olschki, 2008). he is a corresponding member of the American musicological society, a fellow of the british Academy, and the recipient of various awards, among which the Dent medal of the Royal musical Association and the glarean-preis of the swiss musicological society. he read an early version of his chapter at The embodied myth in the dramma per musica. bRAm vAn OOstveLdt is Assistant professor of theater studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he is working on technologies of vision and spectacle in the early nineteenth century. he is currently preparing a book on the concept of ‘naturalness’ in eighteenth-century French theater and drama, co-writing (with stijn bussels) a volume on spectacular culture and lifelike images in nineteenth-century belgium, and co-organizing the conference Waking the dead: sublime poetics and popular culture after the French Revolution (Villa medici, Rome, January 2011). his contribution to this volume was originally presented at the conference The embodied myth in the dramma per musica. ...

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