The Voice Gym
Work with the body and vocal practice to cultivate attention and continuity in research.
Francesca Della Monica
Voice research and practice
The voice, a place
of possibility.
Theatre is at the heart of my artistic and pedagogical life. On stage, voice research meets the body, the text and listening; this experience informs my work with performers and those who study with me, at Spatium Vocis and beyond.
Philosophy of the voiceTraining and researchVocal dramaturgyPistoia · Italy · Brazil
01 / Research
Thinking about the voice.
Inhabiting it.
I am Francesca Della Monica, a singer, vocal performer, composer, vocal dramaturg and voice teacher. Theatre is central to my work: through encounters with actors, directors and texts, artistic creation and pedagogy nourish one another. My work brings together philosophy, music and vocal practice in relation to the body, space and the listener.
I studied in Liliana Poli’s Chamber Music for Singers class at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence and graduated in Singing from the Conservatorio Girolamo Frescobaldi in Ferrara. I hold a degree in Philosophy from the University of Florence and a specialisation in Archaeology from the University of Siena.
My musical training, together with my philosophical and archaeological education, has shaped my distinctive approach to investigating the voice: these fields inform the perspective from which I conduct my research into vocality. In textual study and, in particular, in giving voice to dramatic texts, it has been essential to excavate the different layers and semantic horizons of the text.
Twentieth-century and contemporary music, experimental practices and the avant-garde have accompanied my work. This path has led me to meet and collaborate with composers and musicians including Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, Aldo Clementi, Marco Betta, Marco Di Bari, Armando Gentilucci, Roberto Fabbriciani, Stefano Scodanibbio, Daniele Lombardi, Paolo Castaldi, Giuseppe Chari, Davide Mosconi, Giuliano Zosi, Pietro Grossi, Vittorio Fellegara, Francesco La Licata, Andrea Nicoli, Riccardo Vaglini, Gabriele Marangoni, Damiano Meacci and Mauro Lupone.
From 1987 to 1997 I was organising secretary of GAMO — Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi.
A central relationship in my work is my artistic partnership with Federico Tiezzi and Sandro Lombardi, developed over more than thirty years of collaboration with the Lombardi Tiezzi company.
In 2017, I founded Associazione APERTA together with actor and playwright Maurizio Donadoni and musician and educator Ernani Maletta.
My approach is anthropological: I investigate the origins of vocal practice in all its aspects, bringing physical and cultural anthropology together.
My research encompasses traditional and experimental vocal techniques, unconventional notation and the soundscape. In 2018, I registered my method of voice maieutics and pedagogy, Vocazione spatium vocis. In 2024, I was appointed an honorary member of GIVA, Gruppo Italiano Vocologi Artistici.
The voice as a living presence
Open the full-size map02 / Pedagogy
Thought finds a voice.
Body and vocality belong to the same process. The work begins with physical and psychological experience, opening up perception, listening and vocal experimentation.
The layers of the voice
A programme exploring the many semantic horizons the voice traverses in spoken expression, textual study and singing.
Workshops and training
Research encounters and pedagogical programmes for actors, singers, dramaturgs, teachers, dancers and voice professionals, also open to anyone interested in exploring the possibilities of the voice.
Professional training programmes
For the past two years, professional training courses have been running around my philosophy of vocal work, for those who wish to work with this approach.
Over the past year, a professional training course on reading and giving voice to the text has also begun, connected to The layers of the voice and the study of the many semantic horizons traversed by vocality.
Both programmes have welcomed guest scholars, actors, educators, musicians and musicologists.
“The voice has not removed me from everyday life. Each time, it has taught me to return to it, transfiguring it.”
Francesca Della Monica
03 / Spatium Vocis
A space.
Continuity.
Pistoia
Spatium Vocis is my physical space for study and encounters in Pistoia: a place to sustain voice research and training. It is home to the pedagogical initiatives of A voce spiegata.
I want it to be a meeting place for those who wish to deepen, experiment with and share a practice. Here, pedagogy grows alongside thought and artistic experience.
04 / The stage and the schools
The voice in relationship.
Vocal dramaturgy
I work in vocal dramaturgy, supporting performers as they prepare their voices for the stage. My artistic partnership with Federico Tiezzi and Sandro Lombardi, whom I consider my teachers, spans more than thirty years of collaboration with the Lombardi Tiezzi company and is a central thread in my work with the voice on stage.
In Italy, I have collaborated with directors including Federico Tiezzi, Gabriele Lavia, Carlo Cecchi, Massimo Popolizio, Dario Fo — whose personal vocal coach I was — Mauro Avogadro, Giancarlo Cauteruccio, Roberto Bacci, Sandro Garzella, Gianfranco Pedullà, Massimo Verdastro, Massimiliano Civica, Leo Muscato, Paul Curran, Andrea de Rosa, Serena Sinigaglia, Lina Prosa, Marco Carniti, Marta Cuscunà, Guido Ceronetti, Paolo Rosa and Giovanni Scandella.
Encounters in dance and performance include Roberta Gelpi, Chiara Bersani, Marco D’Agostin, Gloria Dorliguzzo, Maguy Marin, Virgilio Sieni, Lindsay Kemp and Paulo Chamone.
Teaching in schools
I teach in the acting schools of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the Teatro Nazionale in Genoa, the Teatro Stabile in Turin, the Teatro Mercadante in Naples and the Accademia del Dramma Antico in Syracuse.
I teach on the Master di Vocologia Artistica, directed by Franco Fussi in Ravenna and organised by Almatu S.r.l.. My teaching also includes ARTA at the Cartoucherie in Paris. From 2007 to 2013, I taught musical dramaturgy at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
Encounters in voice pedagogy
Among the many artists who have studied with me or followed a programme of vocal research and preparation:
Chiara Bersani · Sarah Biacchi · Marco Bonini · Maria Cassi · Marta Cuscunà · Anna Della Rosa · Maurizio Donadoni · Marco D’Agostin · Isabella Ferrari · Dario Fo · Iaia Forte · Federica Fracassi · Laila Garin · Rosanna Gentili · Sabina Guzzanti · Izza · Marina Lima · Sandro Lombardi · Gabriele Mainetti · Laura Marinoni · Michele Matalon · Muriel Matalon · Renata Melo · Giusi Merli · Cristina Muttarelli · Caroline Pagani · Luisa Pasello · Virginia Raffaele · Tommaso Ragno · Isabella Ragonese · Soraya Ravenle · Elena Sofia Ricci · Dominique Sanda · Massimiliano Speziani · Federica Vincenti · Vera Zimmerman.
Lectures and seminars
I have led workshops at the Conservatories of Venice and Ravenna, CEV in São Paulo and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.
I have given lectures and seminars at the Universities of Verona and Florence, La Sapienza and Tor Vergata in Rome, the Fondazione Francis Bacon, the Fondazione Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Scuola Paolo Grassi, the Teatro Metastasio in Prato and the Fondazione Pontedera Teatro.
My work also includes ARTA at the Cartoucherie in Paris, the Universities of Lisbon and Évora and Giving Voice in the United Kingdom.
In Brazil, I have given lectures and seminars at UFMG in Belo Horizonte, UFSJ in São João del-Rei, UNIRIO in Rio de Janeiro, Unicamp in Campinas, Unesp in São Paulo and the University of Dourado.
Every programme begins with the encounter with performers, their vocal possibilities and the needs of creation.
The partnership with Ernani Maletta
With Ernani Maletta I share an artistic and pedagogical partnership and a deep, fraternal friendship: a relationship of research and creation that takes shape in pedagogical and artistic projects in Italy and Brazil. Voice and theatre are the ground of our dialogue and the work we develop together.
The dialogue between Italy and BrazilKey collaborations
Shared productions and projects: a selection of artistic collaborations and my roles in creation and vocal preparation.
Federico Tiezzi and Sandro Lombardi
A partnership of more than thirty years, from the work with I Magazzini to the Compagnia Lombardi Tiezzi, alongside productions made with other theatres.
The Dante project
The first Dante project began in 1989. I work on voice and singing in the productions and revivals of the Dante project, directed by Federico Tiezzi with the collaboration of Sandro Lombardi.
- Commedia dell’Inferno / InfernoDramaturgy: Edoardo Sanguineti
- PurgatorioDramaturgy: Mario Luzi
- ParadisoDramaturgy: Giovanni Giudici
- 1996 CleopatràsSinging preparation
- 1997 Nella giungla delle cittàMusical compositions and singing direction, with Roberto Secchi
- 1998 I due laiVocal preparation
- 1998 Scene di AmletoSinging coach
- 1999 Zio VaniaSinging coach
- 2001 L’AmbletoParticipation as a performer
- 2002 AmletoSinging coach
- 2004 Antigone di Sofocle, nella versione di Bertolt BrechtSinging coach
- 2004 Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone MartiniSinging
- 2005 Gli uccelliSinging
- 2007 Sogno di un mattino di primaveraSinging
- 2007 I giganti della montagnaSinging
- 2008 Passaggio in IndiaSinging coach
- 2008–2009 La madre — Laboratorio della Toscana · Teatro Magnolfi, PratoSinging coach
- 2010 I promessi sposi alla provaSinging
- 2012 Woyzeck — Laboratorio della Toscana · CastiglioncelloSinging coach
- 2015 Ifigenia in AulideMusic, with Sandro Lombardi and Ernani Maletta
- 2016 CalderónSinging
- 2018 Freud o l’interpretazione dei sogniVocal preparation
- 2018 Antigone, di SofocleSinging and chorus preparation
- 2019 Scene da FaustSinging
- 2020 Samusà, con Virginia RaffaeleVocal preparation
- 2021 Il Purgatorio. La notte lava la menteSinging
- 2023 MedeaChorus preparation · Teatro Greco di Siracusa
- 2024 Fedraby Jean Racine · SingingProduction: Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Teatri di Pistoia, Compagnia Lombardi-Tiezzi
Credits follow production records and the artist’s clarifications. The company’s production history.
Years indicate the productions documented in the company archive; for La madre, the two versions of the workshop at the Magnolfi Nuovo. Teatro Laboratorio della Toscana archive.
Maurizio Donadoni
With Maurizio Donadoni I share an artistic and personal partnership, also expressed through workshop projects such as Wishakespeare, held in Bergamo.
I also took part in his staging of Secretum by Petrarch.
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole
A collaboration bringing together musical performance, pedagogy and stage creation.
- 2013 Folk Songs di Luciano BerioPerformer, mezzo-soprano
With the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and the Sándor Végh Institute Chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum: a concert on 20 June at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and an Italian tour to Florence, Cintoia, Pisa, L’Aquila and Fiesole.
- 2023 Le sette ultime parole del nostro Salvatore sulla croce di Franz Joseph HaydnStage direction and dramaturgy
A staged performance with the Quartetto Alioth, from an idea by Alexander Lonquich, presented on 20 July at the Murate Art District in Florence during ECMA Session Fiesole 2023.
- International ECMA courses — European Chamber Music AcademyTeacher
Participation in the school’s international sessions, also documented in the Fiesole editions of 2022 and 2023.
ECMA Session Fiesole 2023 · The Haydn project with the Quartetto Alioth
Gabriel Villela — Brazil
My collaboration with Gabriel Villela, an artist of extraordinary theatrical imagination and poetic sensitivity, is a treasured encounter in my Brazilian journey. The dialogue with his theatrical universe has opened fertile ground for research into the voice, the text and performers’ expressive possibilities.
The collaboration encompasses vocal dramaturgy, the spatialisation of the voice and work on the text, in dialogue with performers and Brazilian companies.
- 2011 HécubaAnthropology of the voice
- 2012 MacbethVocal conception
- 2013 Os Gigantes da Montanha — Grupo GalpãoAnthropology of the voice, direction and textual analysis
- 2014 Um Réquiem para AntonioVocal spatialisation and anthropology of the voice
- 2015 A TempestadeAnthropology of the voice
- 2016 Peer GyntVocal dramaturgy
- 2017 Boca de OuroVocal spatialisation and anthropology of the voice
- 2021 Cordel do Amor sem Fim — ou A Flor do Chico — Os GeraldosVoice dramaturgy
Carlo Cecchi
- 2003 Sei personaggi in cerca d’autoreVocal preparation of the leading actors
- 2010 Sogno di una notte di mezza estateVocal preparation · Urbino
Leo Muscato
- 2023 PrometeoVocal preparation and singing · Teatro Greco di Siracusa
- 2024 Miles gloriosusVocal preparation and singing · Teatro Greco di Siracusa
Gabriele Lavia
- 2014 Sei personaggi in cerca d’autoreVocal preparation and singing
- 2015 Vita di GalileoVocal preparation and singing
- 2016 ElettraVocal preparation and singing
Massimo Popolizio
- 2016 Ragazzi di vitaPreparation of the sung passagesProduction: Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale
Serena Sinigaglia
- 2022 SuppliciVocal dramaturgy
- 2025 LisistrataVocal dramaturgy
- 2025 L’empireoSinging preparation
- 2026 EumenidiVocal dramaturgy
For L’empireo, the 2025 production is listed, preceded by the staged reading in 2023.
Massimo Verdastro
An artistic partnership also expressed through the Compagnia Verdastro/Della Monica, which we founded together in 1999.
- 1997 Rosso LibertyComposition, vocal dramaturgy and performance
- 1999 Teatro MadreComposition, vocal dramaturgy and performance
- 2000 De ProfundisComposition, vocal dramaturgy and performance
- 2003 SupereliocabaretMusical preparation
- 2004 CantosSole performer
- 2008–2012 SatyriconComposition, vocal dramaturgy and performance
- Alla fine del pianetaComposition, vocal dramaturgy and performance
For Satyricon, the dates cover the process from workshop research in 2008 to the complete production in 2012.
Vocal dramaturgy / Recent projects
Research on stage.
Eumenidi
Collaboration on vocal work and choruses for the production directed by Serena Sinigaglia, presented at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 2026.
The productionConnessioni — Inferno
Vocal dramaturgy for the final presentation on Inferno, directed by Federico Tiezzi and presented in Pistoia on Saturday 3 October 2026. Part of the advanced training project Connessioni, promoted by Fondazione Teatri di Pistoia and Compagnia Lombardi Tiezzi, with artistic direction by Sandro Lombardi and Federico Tiezzi.
The Connessioni projectL’Animale
Vocal dramaturgy for Chiara Bersani’s work.
The productionAsteroide
Vocal work with Marco D’Agostin for the production Asteroide.
Marco D’Agostin’s workSymphony and Dies Irae
Vocal dramaturgy and direction of the anvils for Symphony #2 “true and eternal bliss!” + Dies Irae, directed and choreographed by Gloria Dorliguzzo. Presented at the Oriente Occidente Festival in Rovereto on 7 September 2026.
The production at Oriente OccidenteBooks / Thought and practice
Research, on the page.
Books exploring vocality through thought, practical exercises and the brief form of the aphorism.
Logbook · La Casa Usher · 2024
A voce spiegata
Diario di bordo sulle rotte della vocalità
Voice research bringing reflection, imagination and pedagogical practice into dialogue. The new edition expands the journey with further explorations.
The first edition · 2022
Exercises · La Casa Usher · 2025
I nidi della voce
111 esercizi per attori, cantanti, drammaturghi, insegnanti, e tanti altri
A practical journey through breathing, articulation, range and vocal space. The exercises bring into the body and lived experience the themes explored in A voce spiegata.
Details and purchase of I nidi della voce (opens in a new tab)Aphorisms · Solos Media
88 aforismi sull’infinito della voce
Reflection on the voice in the brief form of the aphorism: thoughts to read, revisit and let resonate. With a Portuguese translation by Ernani Maletta.
Browse the catalogue for 88 aforismi sull’infinito della voce (opens in a new tab)In Portuguese
À plena voz
Diário de bordo sobre as rotas da vocalidade
The logbook on the routes of vocality in Portuguese.
Buy in Brazil / Compre no BrasilReading and inspiration
My guiding lights.
Among the many readings that have nourished my research in the universe surrounding the voice, these books have been pillars and sources of inspiration: guiding lights that have shaped the development of my understanding of vocality. Even when they seem distant from the voice, their connection with it is, for me, profound.
This is an open, continually updated list: I will keep adding texts that have accompanied, and will accompany, my journey.
- André Leroi-Gourhan
Il gesto e la parola - Ernest Fenollosa
L’ideogramma cinese come mezzo di poesia - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis - R. Murray Schafer
Il paesaggio sonoro - John Cage
Silence - David Hume
Trattato sulla natura umana - Pavel Florenskij
Il valore magico della parola - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus logico-philosophicus - Michail Bachtin
Estetica e romanzo - Ezra Pound
ABC of Reading - Vasilij Kandinskij
Lo spirituale nell’arte - Albert Einstein
Relatività - Claude Lévi-Strauss
Antropologia strutturale - Francis Bacon (Francesco Bacone)
Novum Organum - Cristina Campo
Fiaba e mistero - Julian Jaynes
Il crollo della mente bicamerale e l’origine della coscienza - Platone
Teeteto - Ernesto de Martino
Il mondo magico - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Lezioni di estetica - Ernst H. Gombrich
Il senso dell’ordine - Anton Ehrenzweig
L’ordine nascosto dell’arte - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Il ritmo, la musica e l’educazione - Juhani Pallasmaa
La mano che pensa - Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae
Bibliography and testimonials
Studies and perspectives
on my work.
University research, books, critical essays and interviews exploring my artistic and pedagogical research on the voice in Italy and Brazil. Titles are retained in their original language.
Studies and research
Serena Gatti
Il gesto vocale in Francesca Della Monica. Con una nota di Eugenia Casini-Ropa
Teatro e Storia, n. 33 (2012).
The vocal gesture and the relationship between voice and movement in performance practice.
Read the essayCarla Russo
Francesca Della Monica. Il lavoro maieutico sulla voce
Acting Archives Review, year XI, no. 22, November 2021.
The artistic and pedagogical journey, collaborations and a methodology reconstructed with the help of unpublished writings.
Details and articleErnani de Castro Maletta
Voz, música e cena teatral: o trabalho de Francesca Della Monica
VI Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas — ABRACE, São Paulo, 2010.
Vocal identity, space and communication in training and stage creation.
Read the contributionErnani de Castro Maletta
A dimensão espacial e dionisíaca da voz com base nas propostas de Francesca Della Monica: resgatando liberdade expressiva e identidade vocal
Urdimento, v. 1, n. 22, 2014, pp. 39–52. DOI: 10.5965/1414573101222014039.
The spatial and Dionysian dimension of the voice, expressive freedom and vocal identity.
Details and articleAna Faria Hadad Vianna
A arqueologia do trabalho vocal proposto por Francesca Della Monica
Dissertação de mestrado, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, 2012.
Research into the methodology of vocal work, imagery and the spatial dimensions of the voice.
UFMG repositoryIstéfani Pontes da Costa
O estudo de texto no teatro a partir das pesquisas de Helena Mauro, Ernani Maletta e Francesca Della Monica: princípios e procedimentos para os processos de formação do ator
Undergraduate thesis in Theatre, Escola de Belas Artes, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2015. Supervisor: Ernani de Castro Maletta; co-supervisor: Helena Leite Mauro.
Research on the text and actor training, with interviews and ten lessons developed from the proposals of the three educators.
View the thesisRaísa Campos Pinheiro
Palavra em processo: atos performativos e vocalidade no ensino do teatro
Undergraduate thesis in Theatre, Escola de Belas Artes, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2014. Supervisor: Marina Marcondes Machado.
Vocality as a creative process in theatre teaching, with references to work on the body, the word and spatialisation.
Details and thesisPaula Santoro de Souza Lima
O método Espaço-Direcional-Beuttenmüller e a metodologia de Francesca Della Monica: interface e singularidades
Thesis, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, 2015. Reference recorded in Istéfani Pontes’s survey (2015); title to be checked against the original.
Connections and distinctive features of Glorinha Beuttenmüller’s method and Francesca Della Monica’s methodology. The full text is not currently available in this collection.
View the bibliographic sourceLetícia Carvalho Gaspar de Moura
Um canto que é escuta: uma investigação da unidade corpo/voz no ator que canta
Master’s dissertation in Performing Arts, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), 2014.
Listening, body, voice and singing; Francesca Della Monica’s work is among the study’s theoretical references.
Bibliographic recordMarco Galignano
La risonanza olistica. Arte, pedagogia e scienza della voce nelle culture dello spettacolo
Doctoral thesis in Theatre and Film Studies, cycle XXI, Alma Mater Studiorum — University of Bologna, 2010.
Research on voice pedagogy to which Francesca Della Monica contributed. Full text with restricted access.
University recordIstéfani Pontes da Costa e Ernani de Castro Maletta
A ação vocal em jogo: possíveis estratégias metodológicas para a disciplina de Expressão Vocal no Teatro
Voz e Cena, v. 1, n. 1, 2020. DOI: 10.26512/vozcen.v1i01.31569.
Actor training strategies based on Francesca Della Monica’s proposals concerning space and the word on stage.
Details and articleBooks and critical readings
Letícia Carvalho
Um canto que é escuta
Synergia Editora, 2019. ISBN: 9786550100193.
A book based on the master’s research, with a section entitled “Francesca Della Monica: os espaços”.
Publisher’s pageNevio Gambula
Francesca Della Monica: la voce che si spiega
L’Age d’Or, 12 January 2023.
A reading of A voce spiegata through thought, the body, performance and poetic creation.
Read the reviewAndrea Porcheddu
Spiegare la voce: il mistero della vocalità nel libro di Della Monica
Gli Stati Generali, 31 March 2023.
The book A voce spiegata, vocal archaeology, dramaturgy and the responsibility of making oneself understood.
Read the reviewInterviews
Alessandra Bernocco
Francesca Della Monica: «Una voce è bella quando è autentica e senza censure»
IDEA / IDEAWebTV, 6 February 2025.
A conversation on authenticity, polyphony, aphorisms and stage practice.
Read the interviewAudio testimonials
Dario Fo · Mistero Buffo
Dario Fo on my work
During a performance of Mistero Buffo, Dario Fo speaks about Francesca Della Monica and her work on the voice. A testimonial preserved in the artist’s personal archive.
Recording from 23 January 2012 · Teatro Saschall, Florence · Audio excerpt: 2 minutes 56 seconds.
Radio interviews
Rai Radio 3 · Momus. Il caffè dell’Opera
Incontro con Francesca Della Monica
14 March 2026 · With Sandro Cappelletto · Approximately 70 minutes · In Italian.
A conversation about my research into vocal action and vocality.
Listen on RaiPlay SoundVideos and listening
The voice to see and hear.
Compositions, performances and lectures: videos also tell the story of my vocal work.
Visit my YouTube channelUltra Existir
My CD released by Circus Produções, available to listen to in the YouTube playlist.
Listen to Ultra ExistirMetastasis
A work by Gabriele Marangoni, with Francesca Della Monica as vocal performer.
Watch MetastasisSilent. Visioni dal limite della percezione
A work by Gabriele Marangoni for a vocal ensemble of deaf people, soprano, male voice, percussion and live electronics, with Francesca Della Monica as soprano. Premiered at Festival Aperto, Teatro Cavallerizza in Reggio Emilia, on 4 November 2017.
Explore Silent — I TeatriWatch SilentErnani Maletta on my work
A video in Portuguese in which Ernani Maletta speaks about my work on the voice.
Watch the video — in Portuguese05 / Calendar
In Pistoia and beyond.
Workshops at Spatium Vocis, activities in schools, encounters and artistic events elsewhere.
Upcoming events
Portugal · 20 October 2026 · 4 pm
Conversas a meias — À plena voz
Presentation of À plena voz: Diário de bordo sobre as rotas da vocalidade (Editora Javali), translated by Ernani Maletta. A conversation with Francesca Della Monica and Helena Rodrigues, lecturer and researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CESEM).
LAMCI-LEC, room 224 · Colégio Almada Negreiros · Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Organisers: Cláudia Madeira and Miriam Freitas.
Capacity limited to 30 people, admitted in order of arrival. To secure a place, write to Miriam Freitas.
Request a place
Italy · Florence · 23–25 October 2026 · 3–7 pm
A voce spiegata — Il Lavoratorio
A voice seminar led by Francesca Della Monica. An exploration of vocal action as an anthropological and performative phenomenon, in the relationship between body, gesture and physical, relational and imaginative space.
The programme covers vowels and consonants, breathing, spatial dimension and vocal range, the different languages of the voice and vocal dramaturgy. It includes giving voice to literary, theatrical, poetic and musical texts through speech and singing, in individual and collective performance.
Italy · Pistoia · 6–8 November 2026
A voce spiegata — Advanced module
Three days of research and in-depth exploration of vocality through Francesca Della Monica’s Spatium Vocis methodology.
Limited promotional places: book your place.
Information and registrationFrance · Paris · 9–20 November 2026
Création vocale et parole en action : une approche polyphonique du texte et du jeu
A course led by Francesca Della Monica and Marcus Borja at ARTA, at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes. Monday to Friday, 10 am–5 pm, for a total of 60 hours.
A programme bringing together text work, vocal and breathing training, listening and polyphonic creation, for actors, singers, playwrights, directors, musicians and stage artists.
Individual fee: €600; institutional fee: €1,800. Annual membership: €20. To apply, send a CV, motivation letter and photograph to ARTA.
Italy · Bagnacavallo (RA) · 5–6 December 2026
Voice masterclass
With Francesca Della Monica at Accademia Marescotti in Bagnacavallo.
For information and registration: info@accademiamarescotti.it · 347 258 3590 · 347 378 1889.
Information and registration
Contact me for information about current activities and opportunities to take part.
Request programme dates06 / Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world
One language.
Many voices.
Brazil is a place close to my heart and part of my professional journey. A page devoted to artistic and pedagogical relationships with Brazil and Portuguese-speaking artists.
Explore Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking worldContacts and organisation
Arrange an encounter.
Italy · William Caruso
Organisation of activities in Italy · Associazione APERTA
aperta.associazione@gmail.comBrazil · Raisa Campos
Artistic organisation in Brazil
Artistic organisation in Brazil
Brazil · Gilmar Iria
Administration, sales and registration in Brazil
Administration, sales and registration in Brazil