Italian Studies

Before pursuing her Ph.D. at Brown, Michela Ronzani worked as a music agent for soloists and conductors in Milan. At Brown, she contributed to the organization of the Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival, in collaboration with the Cineteca of Bologna, and a series of symphonic and chamber music concerts featuring Italian composers. Her dissertation, written under the direction of Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, focused on La Scala of Milan at the turn of the twentieth century. Among her publications, an essay entitled  “Creating Success and Forming Imaginaries: The Innovative Advertisement for Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (1896)” in the volume The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World.