Emilio Sala is Associate Professor of Musical Dramaturgy at the University of Milan. His research focuses on the musical dramaturgy of opera, melodrama and film music, and his publications include L'opera senza canto: il mélo romantico e l'invenzione della colonna sonora (1995) and The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata (2013). He has published articles and reviews in Cambridge Opera Journal, Musica e storia, Musica/Realtà, Musicalia, Opera Quarterly, Orages, Revue de musicologie, Revue d'histoire littéraire de France, Il saggiatore musicale, Studi Verdiani and elsewhere.