Mary Ann Smart
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204 Morrison Hall
642-2683
email: masmart@berkeley.edu
Work and specialization: Broadly stated, my work focuses on the social and historical bases for musical expression in nineteenth-century European opera. Recent projects have focused on the historical reconstruction of 19th-century staging, theories of gesture and gaze, composers' collaborations with female singers, and the representation of the body in the musical vocabulary of Italian opera. A book-in-progress, Risorgimento Fantasies, excavates links between opera and progressive political thought in Italy before Verdi. Other new projects concern the crisis of opera in early 19th-century Germany and the legacy of melodrama, and analysis of contemporary operatic staging in relation to filmic aesthetics.
Recent Publications and Activities: Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera (University of California Press, 2004); Critical edition of Donizetti's Dom Sébastien (Ricordi 2004); "Roles, Reputations, Shadows: Singers of grand opéra," Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, David Charlton, ed. (Cambridge UP, 2003), 108-28; "Gender and Music," Harvard Dictionary of Music, rev. edn.(Harvard UP, 2003), 344-46; Cambridge Opera Journal, guest editor of double issue on Verdi (November 2002); Reading Critics Reading: Criticism of French Opera from the Revolution to 1848, co-edited with Roger Parker (Oxford UP, 2001); Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (edited collection) (Princeton UP, 2000); "Liberty On (and Off) the Barricades: Verdi's Risorgimento Fantasies," in Making and Remaking Italy: The Formation of Cultural Identity around the Risorgimento, Ascoli and von Henneberg, eds. (Berg, 2001), 103-118; "In Praise of Convention: Formula and Experiment in Bellini's Self-Borrowings," Journal of the American Musicological Society (Spring 2000), 27-68; "Bellini, Vincenzo" and "Donizetti, Gaetano," New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 7th edition (Macmillan, 2000), Vol. 3, 194-212; Vol.7, 471-97
Education:
B.Mus (flute performance), McGill University, 1985
M.A. (music criticism), McMaster University, 1989
Ph.D. (musicology), Cornell University, 1994
updated 2/1/2006