Rate My Professor Michael Christoforidis

Christoforidis specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish music and dance and their impact on Western culture, as well as Hispanic culture and the guitar. Additional research interests encompass the music of Igor Stravinsky and Percy Grainger. He is widely recognized as a leading expert on the composer Manuel de Falla. His scholarly output includes the monograph Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music (Routledge, 2017) and, co-authored with Elizabeth Kertesz, Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Époque (Oxford University Press, 2019). Other notable publications feature 'Conscripting Carmen as Cinematic and Dance Propaganda for the Spanish Civil War in Germany and the United States of America' (co-authored with Elizabeth Kertesz), 'From Paris to the Ottoman Empire: Spanish Estudiantinas, the Popular Music Stage and Sonorities of the Belle Époque,' and 'Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930.' He is currently completing a monograph on constructions of Hispanic music in Belle-Époque Paris. Christoforidis has convened conferences, including events on the guitar, and maintains an active profile in musicological scholarship.