Dr. Ruth Longobardi

Assistant Professor of Music
102 Webb
Office: (804) 484-1586

Ruth Longobardi received her Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University in 2004.  She has published articles on the music of Benjamin Britten in Music Research Forum and twentieth-century music (forthcoming).  Longobardi's current research concerns the operas of John Adams;  she is interested in framing Adams's operas as ideological collaborations against a twentieth- and twenty-first century backdrop.

Research:
Opera
Music history
Music and social politics

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University