Claudio Vellutini joined the UBC School of Music in 2016. His research interests focus on the cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera, its dissemination in the Austrian Empire, historiography, performers, and performance and staging practices. His book Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange between Vienna and the Italian States after Napoleon appeared in 2025 for Oxford University Press. He has published essays in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, and in a number of edited volumes.

In 2018, Dr. Vellutini received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in support of his research. He was also the recipient of the 2012 Indiana University Press Award (in recognition to the best student paper presented at the spring meeting of the American Musicological Society’s Midwest chapter), an Ernst-Mach Fellowship from the Österreichischer Austauschdienst (the exchange agency funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 2012-13), a Stuart Tave Teaching Award from the University of Chicago (2014), and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society (2014-15).

Dr. Vellutini currently serves as Associate Editor for the journal 19th-Century Music (published by University of California Press), and is a committee member of the American Musicological Society’s Paul A. Prisk Prize, awarded annually to the best scholarly papers presented by graduate students at the Society’s annual conference. He regularly collaborates with opera houses, music festivals, and media outlets on a number of outreach initiatives for the general audience. Most recently, he wrote essays and program notes for the Salzburg Festival, Bilbao Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Prior to coming to UBC, Dr. Vellutini was a Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 2015. Previously, he studied musicology at the University of Pavia (Italy), where he earned his B.A. and M.A., and at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he was an exchange student. He also completed a degree in violin performance in Cremona (Italy).