"It is not a question of acquiring new tools, but of working with those you have: the important thing is that they are sharp, so you can do a lot with little"

“I met her casually as is often the case with meaningful encounters. I understand that the only way for the relationship to work is to let go, give up, let go but seriously, and she, thanks to a smile that just wants to smile, leads you to regain parts of the body that you thought existed only in science books as a child I hated. Now, finally, in certain moments I finally listen to My voice ... and I cry. Yes, I cry because it is a new meeting, it is a new knowledge, a meeting that helps and supports, because she is my voice "

“Francesca was the first person in my life (I am 40 years old) who directed me towards a path, when I was on the path of no return as I was not aware of what was happening to me. She was my mentor, my Jiminy Cricket, the person who made me understand in which direction my life would go if I hadn't given her a decisive turn. The moment of redemption had come for me, my life could not be decided by others, I was and am the architect of my destiny. My singing teacher had the strength of character, the intelligence, the timeliness to help me open up when she was sure of my hedgehog closure "

“Finally my strong point is me, and it is a great achievement. Thanks. Because I can breathe without the air getting stuck in my throat or stopping high on my chest. It takes practice but it works. The music has changed. The body knows and acts. You just need to know how to listen to it. This he taught me and this I try to do. Truth is the only way to regain possession of oneself. THE SOUND IS NO LONGER INDISTINCT. I learned the difference between sound and noise. That sound creates bridges and breaks down barriers. The sound opens and does not close "

“I had heard of her very well and she reassured me that she didn't seem to belong to a particular singing school. What intrigued me instead was his very original work on the body. I imagined a kind of yoga for singers that was a bit eccentric. Furthermore, I must have been attracted to his work on the person, on the psyche. I tried to go. I was thinking of doing four lessons. Studying with Francesca has borne fruit both in singing and in the formation of my identity. I started from my person to learn to sing and now it is singing that teaches me to live, that shapes me as a person! "

“At first I was full of enthusiasm, but immediately I found myself not quite understanding where his method was taking me. For the first time I found myself dealing with the body, the air ... and little with the notes, the intonation, the emission. He always told me not to think about sound. You have to get involved completely, even at the risk of feeling incapable and thinking that you have suddenly turned back. I called it psycho-song, as it came out of everything, and the internal tragedies overcome with the body and with the sound seem and still are a miracle that is bringing harmony into my life "

“I started this journey towards my self last year, initially I didn't have the faintest idea of what I had undertaken and perhaps even today I can't explain the work I do with Francesca. I met her in a theater laboratory (…). The mind inhibits, censors, blocks the flow of sounds, of energy. I'm embarking on a journey through the breath, from which I return different, serene, open, ready to enter the realm of sounds "

“The first encounter with my voice was very upsetting. The relationship with my body has always been turbulent and grumpy. I voluntarily oppressed my energy because it showed me how my legs with cellulite trembled, how my bacon was divided into three rolls. The awareness of being like this, of being beautiful inside, made me see my body with different eyes. Each of us has an energy to download, to appreciate, to show and it's so healthy it's incredible. (…) Now I would like to say that my journey is over, like all journeys it has a departure and a return, but this journey is different, it is particular. It is a journey within oneself and it cannot end. The important thing is to get it started, the important thing is that there is someone to help you start it "

"The moment has come. I am all euphoric and I think that shortly thereafter, in a vertigo of events, I will give birth to my baby. I didn't suspect it could be that strong. But I am prepared. I start to sing. Years of work with the body in order to make it a wind instrument. I focus only on this. Adding the singing universe to this experience can help to give it a truly harmonious completeness and perhaps to lay lasting foundations for the future both in the relationship between mother and her child, but also for a harmonious development of the child. "

"I said to myself on my way home ... I am my voice and I am when I speak and sing and ... When I speak now I can feel myself ... Having the perception of my identity ... And speaking will be like singing ... Sorry if I write to you and I steal a moment from you of your time ... But this thought is the first time I think it "

“For a few days I hadn't made any sound anymore: no sore throat, no cough or hoarseness, or anything else that could justify such a sudden silence. The recourse to my speech therapist produced a clear and incontrovertible answer: “You do not make sounds because you do not hear enough to give you the necessary security for the emission; it is your defense against deafness ”. The only solution, at this point, is to get a prosthetic. Two years later I am intent on intoning some sounds that a distinguished singer, with a singular white nuance on a raven black hair, throws me with sweet decision on the keyboard of her piano. For a year I have been pursuing the goal of going back to singing (which is very difficult for those who do not hear, of course) but with Francesca things have taken a deeper turn. The work we do has allowed us to dismantle some of the “scaffolding” that have supported my body and spirit for years. I understood and accepted that I was not out of tune at all. I almost understood and accepted that I am not so severely deaf. I understand that I have a sensitivity to sounds that pass through channels other than the ear. I removed the night bite (the bruxism bite) and the hearing aids. I started singing. "

“Dear Francesca, today is an important step for me, one more step towards a goal that is still unattainable, but so far possible. It is a victory for myself, a victory against that little voice that until recently prevented me from using my voice in all artistic fields. Yes, because until recently every time they asked me to sing, I felt terrified at the very thought of having to do it and I was stuck. Today I am here to tell you that it is no small thing that you have taught me in these two years. You taught me not to be afraid of my sensitivity (and sensitivity), to feel my body, my spirit and my mind and that these three united parts can work delightfully. You taught me to work with the body, not to detach the work of the body from the voice, like the voice from the muscles of the body, to constantly work on tensions to work on the character, not to be satisfied with what you told me in class, but to being curious enough to satiate my knowledge and feel full and confident in what I was doing. You taught me things about myself that I didn't even know: that I give a perception of myself pissed off when I try to stay in my self, that there is an exterior of mine that is sometimes very self-centered because it wants to be accepted by others, that there is a Eleonora maestrina who imposes herself to protect herself from the negative environment that surrounds her, that emotionality is not a defect but a virtue, that even aggression is a force that can be channeled in the right place. But most of all you taught me to sing! You taught me that before singing, however, you have to take care of everything that hitherto prevented us from doing it ... and you helped me to make sure that today I sang alone and then together with all these people in this club. I would like to say a million more things that I have learned from you over the years, and of course I know that some things I forget sometimes, but as you taught me it takes time before my body gets used to what it never is. I was used to doing before ... so today I learned to be calm, that you can always find a lot of time to sing. "

"Dear Francesca, I want to thank you for the beautiful evening that you organized two weeks ago in the center, in Rome ("General Test") and which sent me a continuous flow of beautiful sensations. All of your students were visibly excited. I admired people's ability to experiment and get involved, to get to sing in front of the audience ... In each of them it was nice to recognize the fruits of your work: respect for the student, his personality, attention to his times and his process. Each, in their own diversity, incorporated the breakthrough achieved through your patience, your care, your energy, the motivation to be more daring. I observed your great humility: always one step back, sitting in the back rows, never giving in to vanity and protagonism. Never a hint of self-reference, never an ostentation. When you found yourself in the center of the group for the final photo, you preferred to move to the side to leave space and visibility for the students. That evening I went home happy. Thank you for the dedication and love you put into the work you do. "