Usula, Nicola

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Nicola Usula teaches ‘Poetry for music and musical dramaturgy’ at the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin. He carries out research in the field of 17th-18th century melodrama in Italy and in the Habsburg Empire with a philological, librettological, codicological-bibliographical and iconographic-musical approach. He has worked as a researcher for the University of Bologna, Yale University, the University of Vienna, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Academy of Sciences in Prague. Since 2013 he has published various scientific contributions including: the critical edition (text) of Maria Rosa Coccia's Ifigenia (music edited by Judith Ortega, Madrid: ICCMU, 2022), and Francesco Cavalli's Orione (together with Davide Daolmi, Kassel: Bärenreiter 2015); the facsimile editions of Francesco Sacrati's Finta pazza (Milan: Ricordi, 2018), and Francesco Cavalli and Alessandro Stradella's Novello Giasone (Milan: Ricordi 2013). He has also published the monograph «Cavato dal spagnuolo e dal franzese»: fonti e drammaturgia del “Carceriere di sé medesimo” di Lodovico Adimari e Alessandro Melani (Firenze 1681) (Pisa: Pacini, 2018), and collaborated on the publication of the catalogue I ritratti del Museo della Musica di Bologna da padre Martini al Liceo musicale (Florence: Olschki 2018; Claire Brook Award 2019, CUNY), together with L. Bianconi, M.C. Casali Pedrielli, G. Degli Esposti, A. Mazza and A. Vitolo.