Claudio Vellutini is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, and previously studied musicology at the University of Pavia-Cremona. Before coming to Vancouver, he taught at Indiana University (Bloomington). His current book project on early nineteenth-century opera and cultural exchanges between Vienna and the Italian States is supported by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is a recipient of an Ernst-Mach Fellowship from the Österreichischer Austauschdienst, and of an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society (2014-15). His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, and several collected volumes.