Magnus Tessing Schneider

Magnus Tessing Schneider is a Docent (Reader) in Theatre Studies from Stockholm University and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark within the research project 'Histories: Assessing the Role of Aesthetics in the Historical Paradigm'. His research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European theatre, Shakespearean dramaturgy and performance practice, the intertwined histories of singing and acting, the opera composers Monteverdi, Cavalli,...See more

Magnus Tessing Schneider is a Docent (Reader) in Theatre Studies from Stockholm University and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark within the research project 'Histories: Assessing the Role of Aesthetics in the Historical Paradigm'. His research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European theatre, Shakespearean dramaturgy and performance practice, the intertwined histories of singing and acting, the opera composers Monteverdi, Cavalli, Gluck, Mozart, and Verdi, and the librettists Giovan Francesco Busenello, Ranieri Calzabigi, and Lorenzo Da Ponte. He was a cofounder of the Nordic Network for Early Opera, and his practice-oriented research has inspired opera productions across the world. He is the author of The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni (London: Routledge, 2021). He is co-editor with Ruth Tatlow of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal (Stockholm University Press, 2018), and the editor of Felicity Baker's essay collection Don Giovanni's Reasons: Thoughts on a Masterpiece (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021). See less