... studied Musicology and Hungarian Studies at the University of Florence, where she also received her PhD in History of Performing Arts (2016). Moreover she has obtained scholarships at the Balassi Institute, the Franz Liszt Music Academy and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Later Elena was contract worker at the University of Florence, postdoctoral fellow and contract worker at the German Historical Institute in Rome. Since 2016 she has been part of the editorial team of Nuove Musiche and since 2019 a member of the research group “Accademie Toscane” of the Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Seicento, Università per Stranieri in Siena.
At the Oeaw she collaborates on the Fux Projekt, where she is engaged in the critical edition of sacred oratorios. From October 2023 she is in charge of the 'Flora et Germana' project. She is part of the research unit Musicology.
Publications
- Abbado, Elena (2022) The Prague Masses by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini., S. 3-18.
- Abbado, Elena (2021) "Musicorum Coetus Pro Anima”. La vanitas musicale di San Niccolò del Ceppo a Firenze e i suoi modelli iconografici tra Jacopo Ligozzi e Federico Zuccari. Imago Musicae. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography, Bd. 31/32, S. 137-164.
- Abbado, Elena (2020) La fortuna di Giovanni Maria Bononcini a Firenze attraverso gli oratori e i centoni. In: Vanscheeuwijck, Marc (Hrsg.), I Bononcini: da Modena all'Europa; Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, S. 187-201.
- Abbado, Elena (2020) Rodrigo as seen by “Rodrigo”: Staging and reception of Handel‘s first Italian opera. Händel-Jahrbuch, Bd. 66, S. 339-369.
- Abbado, Elena (Hrsg.) (2019) Imaginary Bridges: Music@VillaRomana 2009-2010., ISBN: 978870969924. Aufl.; Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana (144 Seiten).
- Abbado, Elena (2019) “Il bacio della giustizia e della pace”. Aspekte der Friedensthematik im italienischen Oratorium. Die Tonkunst, Bd. 1/2019 (1/2019), S. 63-70.
Lectures
Abbado, Elena (08.11.2023) The oratorio "La Passione di Gesù Cristo" (1730) and the beginning of the collaboration with Pietro Metastasio. Vortrag bei: Antonio Caldara: From Venice to Vienna (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Abbado, Elena (29.08.2023) Contesti storico-politici e prassi esecutive della "Santa Rosa" di Alessandro Melani a Viterbo (1681) e Firenze (1693). Vortrag bei: Attorno alla "Santa Rosa di Viterbo" di Alessandro Melani (Abbado, Elena - De Carlo, Andrea), Viterbo/ITALY.
Abbado, Elena (30.10.2021) La Congregazione di Santa Cecilia di Firenze detta Centuria de' Musici: origine, attività e consistenza. Vortrag bei: Società Italiana di Musicologia XVIII convegno annuale, Rom/ITALY.
Abbado, Elena (16.10.2021) “Almost an angel fallen from heaven”: notes on the collaboration between György Kurtág and Claudio Abbado. Vortrag bei: Ascoltare il futuro. Claudio Abbado e il nuovo / Listening to the Future. Claudio Abbado and The New, Mailand/ITALY.
Abbado, Elena (09.06.2021) John of Nepomuk in Italian oratorio (1724–1767): topics, sources and contexts. Vortrag bei: Johannes von Nepomuk: Kult – Künste – Kommunikation (ÖAW), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Abbado, Elena (05.10.2020) L'"Artaserse" di Domenico Terradellas (Venezia, 1744). Vortrag bei: Compositori di formazione napoletana a Venezia: 1740-1760 (Conservatorio F. Cilea, Reggio Calabria, Italien), Reggio Calabria/ITALY.