Hilary Poriss
(Northeastern University)
Hilary Poriss is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Music and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Her primary research interests are in the areas of 19th-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, diva culture, and the aesthetics of 19th-century musical culture. She is the author of Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Oxford 2010), Gioachino Rossini’s Barber of Seville (Oxford 2021), and co-editor of The Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge 2011) and The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford 2012). She is currently writing a biography of Pauline Viardot for the University of Chicago Press.
Hilary Poriss è professore associato di musica presso il Dipartimento di Musica e il College of Arts, Media and Design della Northeastern University. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca sono nell’ambito dell’opera italiana e francese del 19° secolo, la pratica esecutiva, la cultura del divismo, e l’estetica della cultura musicale del 19° secolo. È autrice di Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donna, and the Authority of Performance (Oxford 2010), Gioachino Rossini’s Barber of Seville (Oxford 2021), e co-editore di The Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge 2011) e The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford 2012). Attualmente sta scrivendo una biografia di Pauline Viardot per la University of Chicago Press.