Anthony DelDonna

Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century topics, in particular Neapolitan music, musicians and culture. Prof. DelDonna's research has focused primarily on opera, archival studies, performance practice and ballet and been published in the peer-reviewed journals Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Recercare, Studi musicali and Civiltą musicale and in various scholarly collections on eighteenth century music. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera (with Pierpaolo Polzonetti; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), editor for Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music (Ann Arbor: Steglein Press, 2008) and co-editor (with Anna Celenza) of Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America (St. Joseph University Press) and a collection of Clarinet and Piano transcriptions by Ferdinando Sebastiani (with Prof. Antonio Caroccia for Castejon Music Editions).