Ayra Xepapadakou

Aura Xepapadakou is a PhD holder and researcher in musicology and theater studies. She has served as a lecturer at the University of Crete and has taught as an adjunct at the Hellenic Open University, Harokopio University, and the University of the Peloponnese, focusing on opera, theater, and music. Her research interests center on the music-theatrical life of the 19th and 20th centuries, for which she has published numerous articles and studies in Greece and abroad. Her monograph "Pavlos Carrer" (Athens: Fagotto, 2013) was awarded the Best Musicological Book Award in 2016 by the Association of Greek Theater and Music Critics. She was a member of the main research team of the "Chrysallis" Research Program (Thales Program, University of Athens, 2012-2015), the scientific director of the Archivio research program concerning the archive of Romeo Castellucci and Societas Raffaello Sanzio (2013-2014), and a member of the main research team of the ARCH-Archival Research and Cultural Heritage program. The archive of Societas Raffaello Sanzio (2014-2015). Currently, she is responsible for documentation in the archive of Romeo Castellucci and Societas Raffaello Sanzio. Thanks to the work of this research team, the archive of Societas Raffaello Sanzio was declared a national collection of outstanding cultural significance by the Italian Ministry of Culture (2015). The findings of her research work in this archive have been published in articles and presented at international conferences. In collaboration with Elena Papalexiou, she has edited and introduced the extensive volume "Origins. The Theatre Archive of Societas Raffaello Sanzio," which encapsulates the entirety of their work. In the spring of 2015, she received a scholarship and conducted research at California State University-Sacramento, and in 2016, she was awarded a "Balzan" program scholarship in the field of musicology [Towards a global history of music], within which she organized the session "Greece: A cultural crossroads between East and West" at the University of Oxford (2016) and conducted research at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Zurich (2017).