ZUZANA VRBOVÀ
Stage and Gestures Director

Zuzana Vrbovà specialises in Baroque gesturing, critical to the singers of historically-informed Baroque opera on stage. 

PROF ANDREA MARCON
Artistic Director
Teatro San Cassiano Srl

Andrea Marcon is a world-renowned specialist in Historically Informed Performance, especially within the genre of Baroque opera, and a professor at the world-leading Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Andrea’s appointment as our first Artistic Director effectively ensures from the outset that we will deliver our aim of staging the highest quality performances of drammi per musica worldwide. Moreover, as a native of Veneto, he knows more than most the value of bringing Baroque opera home to Venice.

GIOVANNI GIOL
President
Conservatorio di Musica
"Benedetto Marcello" di Venezia

Venice

Giovanni Giol has a degree in Political Science and has a proven record of delivering successful businesses in the Veneto. Moreover, as a resident of Venice and President of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music, Giovanni is uniquely placed to advise on how our project can deliver long-term sustainable academic, musical and cultural growth for the benefit of musicians, students, the Venetian people and Venice itself.

PROF FRANCO ROSSI
Director (Retired)
Conservatorio di Musica
"Benedetto Marcello" di Venezia

Venetian opera and music

In an illustrious career, Franco Rossi served as Director of both the Conservatorio and the Fondazione Levi library among other significant academic posts. As Scientific Director of the historical archive of Teatro La Fenice (for whom he remains a consultant), it was his intervention to deposit the archive away from the theatre that saved it from the devastating fire of 1996. As a musicologist, he has published many seminal catalogues spanning the history of Venetian music, including volumes on Legrenzi, Albinoni and Galuppi, and chronologies of the Teatro La Fenice and Teatro di San Benedetto. His work has resulted in a number of lost operas being restaged in Venice. In June 2018, he was awarded the honour of Cavaliere al Merito of the Italian Republic.

PROF JANE GLOVER, CBE
Felix Mendelssohn Emeritus Professor of Music
Royal Academy of Music, London

Early Venetian opera and Historically Informed Performance

Before embarking on her lifetime career as a conductor in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, Jane Glover's postgraduate studies were largely spent in Venice, and led to her doctoral thesis ("The Teatro Sant' Apollinare and the Development of Seventeenth-century Venetian Opera", Oxford 1976), her first book, Cavalli (1978), and her own edition performances of several Venetian operas (Monteverdi's Ulisse and Poppea, Cavalli's Rosinda, Eritrea, Didone, Giasone and Eliogabalo). Jane is the author of Mozart's Women (2005) and Handel in London (2018).

PROF TIM CARTER
David G. Frey Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Early Italian opera and Historically Informed Performance

Tim Carter is an author of books on Monteverdi's dramatic works, Italian opera, and American musical theatre. One of his current projects involves a precise reconstruction from archival and similar sources of the staging and sets of the first opera to survive complete, Jacopo Peri's Euridice (Florence, 1600). He is particularly interested in stagecraft in all its senses, and the various consequences of Historically Informed Performance.

Prof BETH GLIXON 
Instructor
University of Kentucky, School of Fine Arts 

Venetian opera production

Beth Glixon is the co-author, with Jonathan Glixon, of Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Venice. She was also one of the co-editors of the Baerenreiter edition of Francesco Cavalli’s opera Erismena (1655). She has written articles on a number of seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century singers including Anna Renzi, Silvia Manni, Giulia Masotti, Caterina Porri, Barbara Strozzi, and Vittoria Tarquini, as well as on opera composers Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Lucio, and Antonio Vivaldi. She was co-editor of the two-volume set Word, Image, and Song.

Dr CHRISTINE JEANNERET
HMQ Margrethe II’s Distinguished Fellow
Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen

Italian opera and performance practice

Christine Jeanneret works as a musicologist between the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, and the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles. Her research focuses on early modern music, especially Italian opera, performance practice, the body on stage, cultural exchange, gender studies and practice-based research in collaboration with performers. Her PhD was on Frescobaldi’s manuscripts (now published by Olschki). She has been an associate researcher for the Yale Baroque Opera Project and a Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. She has published articles on opera, gender studies, the Roman cantata, music and migration, keyboard music and the late madrigals. She is currently writing a book, Eloquent Bodies: Expressing the Passions on the Early Modern Operatic Stage in Florence.

PROF LAMBERTO TRONCHIN
Professore associato
Dipartimento di Architettura
Università di Bologna

Lamberto Tronchin earned his PhD on Room Acoustics from the University of Bologna, where he now teaches Musical and Room Acoustics. His measurement of the acoustics of La Fenice just two months before it burned down in 1996 has created a valuable and historic record that would otherwise have been lost to the world. His studies include the acoustic thinking of 17th- and 18th-century scientists (Kircher and Milizia). He is member of the steering committee on a number of international congresses where he has given several plenary lectures. He also works as acoustic consultant for opera houses and concert halls, including the new Teatro Galli in Rimini. He is the inventor of a patent about non-linear emulation of musical instruments, and he has invented a new acoustic parameter, IAR.

NADIM ZAMAN
Consultant Solicitor
Keystone Law, London

Corporate, Audit and Ethics

Nadim Zaman is a Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions specialist. He has over 15 years of experience acting for high growth companies, management teams, private equity houses and institutional investors. Nadim advises Teatro San Cassiano on all its corporate law matters and has worked with founder Paul Atkin since 2014. Keystone Law is recognised as a Top 100 international law firm and one of three to be listed on AIM, with over 270 partner-level lawyers.

EUGENIO TRANQUILLI
Engineer, Proprietor 
Equilibri Srl, Venice

Project coordinator

Eugenio Tranquilli graduated in Civil Engineering from Padua University. After working in Italy and abroad (notably Japan), he held (from 1986 to 2005) the position of Manager at the Benetton Group SpA, where he coordinated multiple major construction projects in close collaboration with the architects Afra and Tobia Scarpa, and Tadao Ando. In 2005, he founded his own practice, Equilibri Srl, continuing to collaborate with Tadao Ando as general coordinator of a number of significant projects in Venice, including the Punta della Dogana, the Palazzo Grassi, and Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, and the Villa di Jano in Bologna.

ELISABETTA FABBRI
Historic theatres architect
Proprietor, Studio di Architettura
Elisabetta Fabbri, Venice

Theatre reconstruction

Elisabetta Fabbri specialises in the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage. Appointed Commendatore by the President of the Republic in 2005 for the restoration of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and formerly awarded a medal from the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Our Europe Awards 2006, she works in the field of historical and artistic buildings. An ICOMOS member since 2016, she has focused on restoration, renovation, and functional adaptation of historical heritage, especially with regard theatres, museums and libraries. Elisabetta has worked on the restoration of the great Italian opera houses including Gran Teatro La Fenice, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Comunale of L'Aquila and more.

She was Commissario Delegato of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Government for the construction of the new opera house and for the restoration of the Uffizi museum, Florence. She has published works on La Fenice, La Scala and San Carlo.

PETER McCURDY
Historical Builder
Managing Director
McCurdy & Co, Reading

Historical builder

Since the 1970’s, Peter McCurdy has specialised in the study and conservation of Historic Timber Buildings. His projects have included the creation of a large number of reconstructions of diverse historic timber buildings, structures and joinery. These timber reconstructions have included Roman structures, various buildings from medieval to the industrial period, buildings in Museums, a traditional Japanese house and reconstructions in the USA and Istanbul. With his understanding and knowledge of historic timber design and working practice, Peter’s likens his role to that of a traditional Master Craftsman. Peter has undertaken design and research for a number of historic theatre reconstruction projects. He is probably best known for his reconstructions of the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in Southwark, London.