Alexandra Amati-Camperi

Alexandra's interests include the Italian Renaissance, especially the madrigal, Italian opera, Feminist criticism, Romantic piano music, and German Baroque choral music. She has published and read papers on Renaissance, operatic, and gender related topics in several journals and conferences. Her book, Philippe Verdelot: Madrigali a sei voci, was published in 2004. The critical edition of Rossini's 1810 one-act farsa La cambiale di matrimonio for Baerenreiter Verlag is in the editing stages, and she is now working on a book about the presentation and treatment of women in opera, as seen through a few settings of the Orpheus myth, tentatively titled Euridice: The Evolution of the Mythical and Musical Other. An article on the castrati in feminine roles and one on the first operatic heroines have recently been published. She has served on the Council of the American Musicological Society, as the President of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bach Choir, the Chair of the Artistic Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, and on the Board of Directors of the Lycée Français Lapérouse. She is a professional program annotator and pre-concert lecturer for many Bay Area organizations, including the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and its six Bay Area Guilds, the San Francisco Bach Choir, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Philharmonia Baroque, and others.