Anthony DelDonna
Early Modern Italian Music Scholar and Cultural Historian at Georgetown University
About Me
Anthony R. DelDonna serves as Professor in Georgetown University's Department of Performing Arts, where he specializes in 17th and 18th-century Italian music, musicians, and culture. After earning his PhD in historical musicology "with distinction" from the Catholic University of America, he established himself as a leading expert in Neapolitan music and culture1. His research spans opera, instrumental genres, archival studies, performance practice, and ballet, with publications in prestigious journals including Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, and Studi musicali. His scholarly contributions include co-editing "The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera" and authoring "Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples," which examines the intersection of politics, patronage, and artistic culture