
Dr. Linda Fairtile
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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 ChaptersSources.” 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 PublicationsGiacomo Puccini: Edgar (new edition of original four-act version). Milan: Ricordi, 2008.
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In the News
"UR Musicologist Revives 'Edgar,'" Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sun., Aug. 17, 2008"Rare Verdi Sketches for 'Otello' Are Up for Sale in London," New York Times
Wed., Nov. 8, 1995