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Dr. Linda Fairtile

Head, Parsons Music Library
Adjunct Lecturer of Music
  • Profile
    Linda Fairtile is the liaison librarian for music, theatre, dance, and Italian studies, as well as a musicologist who specializes in Italian opera. She is the co-director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University and has appeared as a panelist on the Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz radio broadcasts.
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  • Publications
    Books

    Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research.  Composer Resource Manual no. 48.  New York: Garland, 1999.

    Journal Articles

    “(Re)Constructing the Duomo: Revisions to the Act 2 Finale of Edgar.” Studi pucciniani 5 (2018): 61-79.

    “Verdi at 200: Recent Scholarship on the Composer and His Works.” Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 70, no. 1 (September 2013): 9-36.

    “'Real Americans Mean Much More': Race, Ethnicity, and Authenticity in La fanciulla del West and The Girl of the Golden West,” in Studi pucciniani 4 (2010).

    “Revising Cio-Cio-San.”  Atti su "Madama Butterfly: l'orientalismo di fine secolo, l'approccio pucciniano, la ricezione.” Edited by Arthur Groos and Virgilio Bernardoni.  Florence: Olschki, 2008.

    Duetto a tre: Franco Alfano’s Completion of Turandot.” Cambridge Opera Journal 16, no. 2 (July 2004): 163-86.

    “Toscanini and the Myth of Textual Fidelity” in Journal of the Conductors Guild 24, nos. 1-2 (winter/spring – summer/fall 2003): 49-60.

    “Performing Arts Manuscript Collections: Balancing Access and Privacy,” in Their Championship Seasons: Performing Arts Resources 22.  Edited by Kevin Winkler.  New York: Theatre Library Association, 2001.

    “Verdi’s First ‘Willow Song’: New Sketches and Drafts for Otello.19th-Century Music 19, no. 3 (spring 1996): 213-30.

    Book Chapters

    Sources.” In The Oxford Handbook of Opera, edited by Helen M. Greenwald, 969-988. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

    “Giacomo Puccini: La bohème Composition Draft” in The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial.  Edited by Jon Newsom.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999.

    “Musical Direction in Verdi’s Middle-Period Operas” in Verdi’s Middle Period (1849-59): Source Studies, Analysis and Performance Practice.  Edited by Martin Chusid.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.  413-426.

    Additional Publications

    Giacomo Puccini: Edgar (new edition of original four-act version).  Milan: Ricordi, 2008.

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