Roger Parker

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Roger Parker (born

musicologist who was previously Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London.[1]
His work has centred on opera. Between 2006 and 2010, while Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, Parker presented four series of free public lectures, one example being "Verdi and Milan" in 2007 which is available on video.[2]

In addition to teaching, Parker has been active as joint editor in the preparation of

Les Martyrs in 2014.[5] Additionally, Parker has presented talks on UK radio on aspects of opera, including his talk "Verdi 200: Viva Verdi"[6] on BBC Radio 3
on 6 January and 13 October 2013.

Education and academic work

He studied at the

Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of St John's College. Between 2005 and 2006, he was the chair of the School of Arts and Humanities. Parker became the Visiting Ernest Bloch Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and, in 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
. [5]

Preparation of critical editions of operas

Roger Parker's focus has been in the area of Italian opera of the nineteenth century. For ten years he was founding co-editor (with Arthur Groos) of the Cambridge Opera Journal, and he continues as General Editor of The Critical Edition of the Operas of Gaetano Donizetti published it Italy by Casa Ricordi of Milan and in the United States by the University of Chicago Press under the auspices of the Fondazione Donizetti. His co-editor is Gabriele Dotto, who led Ricordi's editorial department from 1992 to 2001.[3][7]

Other critical editions of Donizetti's operas on which Parker has worked include

Puccini's opera, Manon Lescaut
published by Ricordi in 2013.

A major revival[10] of a never-completed Donizetti opera, Le duc d'Albe, was given in 2012 by the Vlaamse Opera from a critical edition prepared by Parker.[11] He has written about the work involved in its preparation.[12]

Involvement with performances

For the preparation, recording, and presentation of the Opera Rara recording of Donizetti's Belisario in 2012, it has been noted that the opera was "performed in the edition by Sir Mark Elder, Roger Parker and Jürgen Selk, based on the 2010 edition by Ottavio Sbragia."[13] For that event, Parker coordinated and presented an afternoon-long public symposium on the opera. In a similar fashion, when Donizetti's Les Martyrs was presented by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London in November 2014, Roger Parker was part of an introductory panel which also included Dr Flora Willson (who prepared the critical edition) and author and Donizetti biographer Jonathan Keates.[14]

Awards and appointments

He received the "Premio Giuseppe Verdi" in 1986, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1986–87, and in 1991 was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association. 2008 saw his election as Fellow of the British Academy,[5] while, in 2014, he was appointed member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Recent publications

  • "Verdi the revolutionary? Let's separate fact from fiction",[15] The Guardian (London), 7 October 2013
  • Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut, Milan: Ricordi, 2013. Editor, critical edition.[16]
  • A History of Opera[17] (with Carolyn Abbate), London: Penguin Books, Ltd.; New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2012
  • The New Grove Guide to Verdi and his Operas, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006
  • "The Opera Industry", in Jim Samson, ed., The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 87–117
  • "Philippe and Posa Act II: The Shock of the New", Cambridge Opera Journal, 14/1-2 (2002), pp. 133–47
  • Gaetano Donizetti, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, in Le opere di Gaetano Donizetti. Milan: Ricordi, 2002; vocal score, 2003. Joint editor of the critical edition with Anders Wiklund.
  • Pensieri per un maestro: Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli, Turin: Einaudi, 2002. Joint editor with Stefano La Via

Personal life

Married to concert cellist Lynden Cranham, has three children and eight grandchildren.

See also

Musicologist Philip Gossett (General Editor of critical editions of Giuseppe Verdi and Gioachino Rossini's operas.)

References

Notes

  1. ^ London, King's College (6 July 2023). "Roger Parker". King's College London. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Verdi and Milan". gresham.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b "Ricordi".
  4. ^ "Charles Alexander - Chairman". opera-rara.com.
  5. ^ a b c "King's College London - Professor Roger Parker". kcl.ac.uk.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Verdi 200: Viva Verdi". BBC.
  7. ^ "Fondazione Donizetti Bergamo - Fondazione Donizetti Bergamo". donizetti.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014.
  8. ^ Linda di Chamounix.
  9. ^ "Donizetti Society Scores and Librettos Page". donizettisociety.com.
  10. ^ Loomis, George (15 May 2012). "Filling in the Missing Links of an Opera Donizetti Never Finished". The New York Times.
  11. ^ "King's College London - Finishing the job: King's academic completes Donizetti opera". kcl.ac.uk.
  12. ^ "Donizetti Society Article - Le Duc d'Albe". donizettisociety.com.
  13. ^ "Donizetti's Belisario – BBCSO/Mark Elder and Opera Rara [Nicola Alaimo, Joyce El-Khoury, Russell Thomas & Camilla Roberts] @www.classicalsource.com". classicalsource.com.
  14. ^ "Programme for Les Maryrs" (PDF). oae.co.uk.
  15. ^ "Verdi the revolutionary? Let's separate fact from fiction". the Guardian. 7 October 2013.
  16. ^ Critical edition of Manon Lescaut[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ "Penguin Rights".

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