Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His research focuses on stage drama, instrumental music, archival studies, and ballet in early modern Italy and appears in The Journal of Musicology, Acta Musicologica, Quaderni d'Italianistica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Recercare, and Studi musicali. DelDonna is the author of the monograph Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2009).