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Magnus Tessing Schneider

Researcher

Performing Arts
Mail
magnus.tessing.schneider@hsm.gu.se
Visiting address
Eklandagatan 86
41259 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 210
Göteborg

About Magnus Tessing Schneider

Magnus Tessing Schneider is a Docent in Theatre Studies from Stockholm University who is affiliated as a researcher with the Academy of Music and Drama while teaching theatre studies at the University of Bergen. He is a specialist of the relation between textual-musical dramaturgy and vocal-scenic performance practice in Italian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera (especially the operas of Monteverdi, Cavalli, Gluck and Mozart), of the librettists Giovan Francesco Busenello, Ranieri Calzabigi and Lorenzo Da Ponte, and of doubling and allegorical dramaturgy in Shakespeare's plays. His performance-oriented interpretations of opera classics have inspired stagings around the world. Currently working on a project funded by the Swedish Research Council, ‘Doubling and Allegorical Dramaturgy in the Operas of Francesco Cavalli’ (2024–2026), he is the author of The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (London: Routledge, 2021) and the editor of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal (with Ruth Tatlow, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018), Felicity Baker’s essay collection Don Giovanni’s Reasons: Thoughts on a Masterpiece (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021) and, with Meike Wagner, Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2023).