Valeria De Lucca is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Southampton. Her interests include music patronage, with particular regard to early modern women, the circulation of music in early modern Europe, systems of opera production between court and public theaters, and the visual aspects of the operatic spectacle. She is the author of book chapters and articles on seventeenth-century music and culture, including “L’Alcasta and the Emergence of Collective Patronage in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Rome” (The Journal of Musicology, 2011), “Strategies of Women Patrons of Music and Theatre in Early Modern Rome: Maria Mancini Colonna, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Women of their Circle” (Renaissance Studies, 2011) and the chapter “Patronage” in The Oxford Handbook of Opera (2014, ed. Helen Greenwald). Her monograph, The Politics of Princely Entertainment: Music and Patronage during the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna (1659-1689) on the music patronage of the Colonna family (1659-1689), is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Publications

“The Politics of Princely Entertainment: Music and Patronage during the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna (1659-1689)”. New York: Oxford University Press (2018).

[Con Christine Jeanneret], “The Grand Theatre of the World: Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Rome”, Ashgate, Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera Series, (2017).

“Fashioning Opera and Musical Theater: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900”. Venezia: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, (2014). (http://www.cini.it/publications/fashioning-opera-musical-theatre-stage-costumes-late-renaissance-1900).

[Con Fabio Carboni e Agostino Ziino], “Tullio Cima, Domenico Massenzio e la musica del loro tempo”. Atti del Convegno (Ronciglione, 1997). Roma: IBIMUS (2003).

“Operetta in Italy” in The Cambridge Companion to Operetta, ed. Derek Scott and Anastasia Belina. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2017)