Prof. Calcagno is a musicologist and cultural theorist. He received his Ph.D. in Music from Yale in 2000, taught at Harvard until 2008 and at Stony Brook until 2013. His work focuses on opera studies, early modern music, performance studies, and digital humanities.
His publications include From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self, an article on linguistics and opera published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and various contributions devoted to early modern music. His essay on the aesthetics of voice in seventeenth-century music, published in the Journal of Musicology, received the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society. His edition of Cavalli's Eliogabalo (forthcoming for Baerenreiter) has been adopted for performances in various international venues. In the occasion of the NYC production, The New York Times and The New Yorker featured articles that discussed his research. He is also the co-director of the Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE), funded by a NEH grant, and he edited Perspectives on Luca Marenzio's Secular Music. Calcagno is working on a book entitled Staging Baroque Opera Today. He has offered workshops for singers and instrumentalists on Baroque music and poetry at the Juilliard School of Music, the Bienen School of Music, and at the Centre for Baroque Music in Versailles.