Céline Frigau Manning is a Full Professor of Italian Studies at Université Lyon 3. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, she was a researcher at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from 2006 to 2010, a resident scholar at the Villa Medici in 2011, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2015–2021. The author of Chanteurs en scène: L’œil du spectateur au Théâtre-Italien (Champion, 2014), she has edited six volumes of essays, as well as a special journal issue on “Italian Music and Medicine in the 19th Century” (Laboratoire italien, no. 20, 2017). Her articles have been published in English, French, and Italian in journals such as 19th-Century Music, Opera Quarterly, Il Saggiatore Musicale, and L’Avant-Scène Opéra. Her monograph on hypnosis, music, and medicine in the 19th century (Ce que la musique fait à l’hypnose. Une relation spectaculaire au XIXe siècle) was published in 2021 by Les Presses du Réel. A revised English-language version is now ready for publication. In 2019, she co-organized the 3rd edition of the Transnational Opera Studies Conference (tosc@paris.2019) in Paris with Isabelle Moindrot.
