Education
She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from Harvard University with highest honors in Romance Languages and Literature.
She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from Harvard University with highest honors in Romance Languages and Literature.
She contributed features, reviews, and essays about the arts to NewMusicBox, Town & Country, Newsday, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, Capital New York, The Classical Review, Salon.com, Forward, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston, Opera News, and Playbill. She also wrote an entry on Maria Callas for Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press). Rosenberg was born in New Jersey to an Italian family from Piedmont, Italy.
She studied theatre and opera history at the University of Florence and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rosenberg was a certified translator of both Italian and French and she doted on vintage and contemporary European popular (including Luigi Tenco, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Jacques Dutronc, Lucio Battisti, Gianmaria Testa, Ivano Fossati, and Carla Bruni). Among the moderns, her great musical love was Rufus Wainwright.
She spoke English, Italian and French fluently and she was eager to learn Spanish and Portuguese. Rosenberg died suddenly on the night of November 28, 2013, of a pulmonary embolism following Thanksgiving dinner at a friend"s house in Endwell, New New York
She was 51 years old.
News of her death came out on December 2, the day of Maria Callas" 90th birthday celebration, who was her idol and the main subject of her studies.