Dr Enza De Francisci is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow, and is assisting with the Leverhulme-funded research network “Re-imagining Italianità: opera and musical culture in transnational perspective” at University College London where she gained her PhD. She has published widely on theatre translation, performance history, and dialect literature in several peer-reviewed journals including Pirandello Studies, for which she edits theatre reviews.
She has been an AHRC-funded Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and has worked as a Linguistic Consultant at the National Theatre during a recent production of Pirandello’s Liolà in a new version by Tanya Ronder, directed by Richard Eyre.
Don Juan is a well-known legend whose legacy has remained owing predominantly to all its many variations and adaptations. This Spanish tale has been t...
Federica Nardacci’s monologue brings to life the thoughts and feelings of Maria Callas’s butler, Ferruccio Mezzadri. Through a stream-of-consciousness...
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a play which has had audiences speak about for centuries since its first performance in 1879, where his iconic protagonist N...
Faithful Ruslan marks the centenary of the Russian revolution. To celebrate this occasion, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre placed centre stage Stalin’s Gul...
Verdi was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and would significantly contribute to the canonization of the Elizabethan writer in nineteenth-century Italy...
In commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, this exceptional staging of L’incoronazione di Poppea brings to life the heated, sens...
Inspired by the recent production of Tarantella,
written, directed and produced by Elizabeth Bowe
and staged at the Omnibus Theatre on Friday 2nd Se...
The special event ‘Sicilian Splendour’ at the British Museum opened its doors to an evening devoted to Sicily’s culture. Scattered around the museum w...
Despite not being Verdi’s first opera, Nabucco was the first work to place the composer at the very heart of the Italian — and later international — o...
After much acclaim, the late Anthony Minghella’s production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly returns to the ENO for its sixth revival: revived by Sarah Tr...
