Rome Award: The ‘modern’ soprano: performing the donna nova in early twentieth-century Italy

building a confessional identity that transcended geographic borders. However, they were simultaneously places where national tensions and the problem of what it meant to be ‘British’ were confronted and negotiated on an international scale. I am incredibly grateful to the BSR for giving me the opportunity to start this new project immediately after the completion of my PhD. From September 2021, I shall take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, where I shall expand my initial BSR research into a broader cross-confessional project about the studies and experiences of Reformed and Catholic student migrants from the British Isles. I cannot thank enough everyone at the BSR (staff, artists and scholars) for the wonderful company they provided during the duration of my Fellowship. It was truly a blessing to weather the darker days of the pandemic as part of such a welcoming, positive and enthusiastic community.