This author is a historian, theorist, and practitioner in opera, music theatre, and related cross-disciplinary arts. With deep knowledge of history and art, and after a fifteen-year professional career in theatre, they now focus on writing and directing new works, enriching the world of opera. Their work explores innovative approaches to music theatre, examining its boundaries and contributing to its theoretical and practical development. Through extensive publications, broadcasting, and editorial work on significant compendiums, they shape contemporary understanding of opera studies.
This analysis of Mozart demonstrates that he was an artist of his era whose work was clearly informed by the ideas and discoveries of the Enlightenment. It also examines the traumatic emergence of a modern society in 18th-century Austria, drawing on writers such as Voltaire and Blake.