Editorial

Abstract

We are delighted to welcome readers to this first issue of TheMA: Open Access Research Journal for Theatre, Music, Arts. This new journal grew mostly from the multifarious activities of DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN, a non-governmental research and documentation centre in Vienna whose international symposia and publications helped generate an interesting network of scholars working on the history of theatre and other forms of cultural production in Central and Mediterranean Europe, and STVDIVM FVLANVM, a non-governmental research centre dedicated to the artistic and intellectual relevance of Central Tuscany around Florence and her Etruscan mother Fiesole in the history of culture; the home of the first villa of modern times and the birthplace of what we know as opera.