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The research activity is primarily oriented toward musical dramaturgy, with particular attention to twentieth‑century and contemporary music theatre, including studies on Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Francesco Pennisi, Aldo Clementi, Azio Corghi, and Alessandro Solbiati. Noteworthy publications include the monograph on Alban Berg (L’Epos, 2012) and the volumes Lo sguardo obliquo. Il teatro musicale di Corghi e Saramago (Ricordi–LIM, 2012) and Elektra, Lulu e le altre. La declinazione della donna nel teatro musicale fin de siècle tra mito e transmedialità (Edizioni Kaplan, 2024).

Research on Vincenzo Bellini, already materialized in the critical edition of the Carteggi (Florence, Olschki, 2017) and in the edited volume Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935–2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024), continues with the philological work on the critical edition of the composer’s second opera, Bianca e Fernando, within the project for the edition of Bellini’s Opera omnia promoted by the publishing house Ricordi.

Further research interests include opera staging and the relationship between music and cinema. Recent writings in these fields include "Music and Images in New Babylon between Literature and Visual Arts" (Music and the Moving Image, 2021), “The seductive visuality in Davide Livermore’s stage writing" (Arabeschi, 2022), and "Fonosfera, etnofonia, musica d’arte. Il sonoro ne La terra trema di Visconti" (La valle dell’Eden, 2024).