Marida Rizzuti is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turin. She has published books on Kurt Weill’s musicals and several essays on the history of musicals, film musicals, and musical TV shows, theory of adaptation and audiovision, music criticism in periodicals and the internet. In the last few years, she has been the recipient of several grants from institutions such as the Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel), The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (New York), and by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice). Her primary interests are XX and XXI centuries American musical theater, exile and diaspora studies, film music, music criticism in the XX Century (US and Italy). She is the author of Il musical di Kurt Weill. Prospettive, generi, tradizioni (2006), Kurt Weill e Frederick Loewe. Pigmalione fra la 42ma e il Covent Garden (2015), Molly Picon e gli artisti yiddish born in Usa (2021).
