Magnus Tessing Schneider

Magnus Tessing Schneider, PhD, is a research fellow in theatre studies, Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. He specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre; relations between dramaturgy, aesthetic theory and scenic-vocal performance practice in Shakespeare and Italian opera; the operas of Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, C. W. Gluck and W. A. Mozart; the librettos of Giovan Francesco Busenello, Ranieri Calzabigi and Lorenzo Da Ponte; historical singers and interrelations of singing and acting; allegory and theatricality; theatre and the Enlightenment; and issues relating to historically informed performance practice. In addition to working as a researcher, he serves as a dramaturgical-historical consultant for opera directors, singers and conductors around the world.