ONDŘEJ MACEK
Music Director

Ondřej Macek’s ground-breaking productions of previously lost operas at the Castle Theatre, Český Krumlov, make him the only music director in the world to specialise in staging historically-informed Baroque opera in costume, with gestures, and within a Baroque theatre, using period stage machinery and scene-sets. His expertise in the restoration of operas will help lead our programme to return lost masterpieces and forgotten composers to the Venetian stage.

Dr STEFANO PATUZZI
Director of Research
Teatro San Cassiano Group

Stefano Patuzzi is a musicologist who has published on Italian music and culture in the late Renaissance, the early Baroque period, and the Counter-reformation, including vocal music editions of the same period. His reputation for qualitative dedicated archival research will not only deliver the intellectual integrity on which the Teatro San Cassiano can be founded, but his extensive experience in management, teaching and public speaking makes him an ideal first Director of Research.

Francesco Fanna
Director
​Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi
della Fondazione Giorgio Cini di Venezia

Antonio Vivaldi and Eighteenth-century opera

Francesco Fanna graduated in Musical Philology from the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice, and studied violin, composition, choral conducting and conducting. He has conducted opera around the world and has directed and/or collaborated with the “Orchestra Filomusica”, the “Nuova Polifonica Ambrosiana”, the Orchestra “Guido Cantelli”, and the “Compagnia per la musica sacra”, all of Milan, as well as with the “Concerts of the Terme di Sirmione”. He was artistic consultant for the Nuova Fonit Cetra record company of Rai. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, which, founded in 1947, has published all the instrumental and vocal music of Antonio Vivaldi and, in recent years, has dedicated himself to the institute’s critical editions of Vivaldi’s drammi per musica.

NEIL CONSTABLE
Chief Executive
Shakespeare’s Globe, London

Theatre Special Advisor

Neil Constable has been Chief Executive of Shakespeare’s Globe since October 2010. In 2017 Neil was named alongside the Globe’s Artistic Director, as the joint 10th most influential people working in theatre and the performing arts in The Stage’s Top 100. He was the Project Champion in leading the development and completion of the Globe’s indoor candlelit Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which successfully opened to audiences in 2014, and which offers such an exemplary model to the Teatro San Cassiano we are building.

JOHN MILLERCHIP
Trustee, Venice in Peril

Venice

Teacher, translator, Trustee of The Venice in Peril Fund, John Millerchip has worked in Venice since 1970. As the former Secretary of the Association of International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice, John had responsibility for coordinating restoration and other projects, and maintaining relations between public authorities, UNESCO, Private Committees, beneficiaries and restorers. His knowledge of how Venice works has been invaluable to the project.

PROF ELLEN ROSAND
George A. Saden Professor of Music Emerita
Yale University

Early Venetian opera

An esteemed specialist in the music of seventeenth-century Venice, primarily opera, Ellen Rosand is the author of Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (1991) and Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (2007), and the editor of Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013). She is also the General Editor of Cavalli Opere, a critical edition of the operas of Francesco Cavalli in fourteen volumes (Baerenreiter Verlag) and founded the Yale Baroque Opera Project in 2006. Ellen taught at Yale from 1992-2014.

PROF MARCO BIZZARINI
Full Professor of Musicology
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Vivaldi and Italian opera

Marco Bizzarini is a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana (Milan) and the Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Brescia and a member of the steering committee of the international research group Tradimus of the Fondazione Levi (Venice). He specialises in the Italian madrigal, cantata and opera of the 17th and 18th centuries. For Venetian Settecento, he has written on Benedetto Marcello, edited Vivaldi's operas La fida ninfa and La Griselda, and studied drammi per musica by Zeno and Goldoni. His contributions are internationally disseminated and published by Ashgate, Ricordi, Oxford University Press, and University of California Press.

ENG Prof JONATHAN GLIXON
Provost's Distinguished Service Professor
University of Kentucky, School of Fine Arts 

Venetian opera production

Jonathan Glixon is a Professor of Musicology at the University of Kentucky. His books on Venetian music are Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807, Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music, and, co-authored with Beth Glixon, Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Venice. He is also one of the co-editors of the Baerenreiter edition of Francesco Cavalli’s opera Erismena (1655). He is currently studying the soundscape of early modern Venice.

PROF CRISTIANO CONTADIN
Musician (Viola da Gamba) and Teacher
Conservatorio di Musica "Benedetto Marcello" di Venezia

Early Italian opera and Historically Informed Performance

Cristiano Contadin has performed as a soloist and a continuist with ensembles in Italy and abroad, including I Barocchisti, Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, La Venexiana, and many more. He has several awards including the Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, and Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. He is dedicated both to research activities linked to the executive practice of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and to the execution of contemporary works. He is founder and director of Opera Prima Ensemble.

TOM KIVLEHAN
Indirect Tax & International Partner
BDO, London

Corporate, Audit and Ethics

Tom Kivlehan is a senior tax partner in a large global accounting firm. He has over 30 years’ experience advising global businesses on their commercial and tax issues, involving projects in over 70 countries. Tom has supported a large number of charitable organisations with various activities including performing arts and the development of major sites.

DR PAVEL SLAVKO
Baroque Stage restoration, Castle Director
National Heritage Institute, Český Krumlov

Stage reconstruction

Pavel Slavko earned his PhD at the Masaryk University in Brno (Deparment of Art History) in 1981, specialising in architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1992 he became the founding member of the Baroque Theatre Foundation of Český Krumlov Castle and Managing Director of the Foundation. His primary focus is on the complete restoration, preservation, cultural and historical renewal and utilisation of the state castle complex in Český Krumlov, which was included in the the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992. Since the early 1990s he has led the rescue, renovation, and revitalization of the Baroque Castle theatre (1766), wherein he was personally responsible for the restoration of the stage, the stage machinery and scenery. His particular interests lie in the research and experimental verification of the principles of Baroque theatre practices.

GIOVANNI RUBIN DE CERVIN ALBRIZZI
Architect
Studio GRCA, Venice

Project coordinator

A Venetian by birth, Giovanni Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi is the son of the renowned composer Ernesto Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi. After graduating in Milan, Giovanni opened his own studio in Venice in 2000, where he specialises in the restoration of Venetian palazzi (both residential and commercial). He has a sensibility to historical Venetian architecture that has already proved invaluable to the project. He currently works on projects in Venice, in the Veneto, and Lake Como. Giovanni still plays rugby and enjoys rowing, standing in the Venetian style, naturally.

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.