Did I conceive Cantare Italiano or did it conceive me?

I wouldn't know.

For sure, any kind of orphanage in real life, be it involuntary or chosen, mostly gives way to the most splendid forms of adoption - if we only let it.

Motherhood is a deliberate choice of acceptance, that has per se nothing to do with being born women or being pregnant or becoming parents - at all.

Motherhood is the most deliberate choice we can make when we decide to be quiet and to accept - to say yes to - what is in our very origin: an unredeemable mark that is beyond past, present and future (the way TS Eliot perfectly puts it).

Motherhood is constantly rediscovering in ourselves the very brand of our origin, the sign which makes us originals instead of copies.

Loving such origin and accepting its love, is motherhood.

Because motherhood is a deeply mutual bond.

Motherhood is accepting to be (glorified as) a medium between something and something else, someone and someone else - but first of all between you and your original self.

That you are Beethoven, Leonardo, an Opera singer or a baker, at all times your origin is claiming you back to your future.

Mother of us all is Music, which we all receive in different ways, forms and degrees.

She'll speak to anybody who is willing to listen, she'll teach its laws and techniques, she'll gently rule with her harmony if we only let it speak its words of wisdom: and there will always be an answer.

She'll plant her seeds after making sure that we are well aware that the fruits do NOT belong to us.

Motherhood is selflessness in its very essence, indeed.

That is, at least, what Music taught me in our long, quiet conversations.

That is what I teach myself and others.

That there is no teacher.
There is just Music: let it be.

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Happy Mother's day,

La Maestra

“extremely good at this” (Graham Vick)

"a fantastic coach, extremely helpful for young singers as well as experienced ones" (Barbara Hannigan)

“bringing the language, the music and the characters to life” (Paul Nilon)

“the foundation of a role” (Jennifer Rowley)

“magic conjunction of vocal technique, musical interpretation and building of the character: a radical rethink of the act of singing” (Anna Piroli)

“her incredible breadth of knowledge makes me feel entirely prepared” (Heather Lowe)

“magic effect on the voice and our art form” (Jessica Harper)

“opened up my voice, and a world” (Giulia Zaniboni)

“180° turn in my work with the singers” (Theophilos Lambrianidis)

"like four professionals in one" (Yiselle Blum)

“invaluable: she’ll make a role really succeed on stage” (Ariadne Greif)

“potentially life-changing” (Amy Payne)

“brings life to operatic drama” (Maria Sanner)

“enlightening, professionally and humanly” (Clara La Licata)

“thoroughly prepared and professional” (Marie Kuijken)

“truly unique method and insights” (Jasmine Law)

“a lingual and linguistic genius” (Peter Tantsits)

“entirely devoted to the art of Opera singing” (Ida Falk Winland)

“incredibly informed, consistent, knowledgeable” (Michael Corvino)

“carrying the torch of finest Italian Opera” (Nathaniel Kondrat)

“a crucial basis for all the singers” (David Cowan)

“a cure and a respect of the Music and the words’ musicality that can be learnt so deeply nowhere else in the world” (Matilde Bianchi)

"an unconventional guardian angel"

(Giulia Ferraldeschi)