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Upon your arrival, you will meet the members of our staff who will welcome you to Florence and Accademia Europea. They will assist you with any difficulties or questions you may have and will offer their suggestions and advice.
Edy Frollano
Academic Director - Instructor of Italian Language - Literature - Opera Libretti
Edy was born in Florence attended school and university there. After receiving her degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, she completed her specialization in Italian as a Foreign Language and the didactics of modern and ancient Italian at the University of Siena.
Since 1989 she has taught Italian Language, Literature and Opera Libretti to foreigners, at the Dante Alighieri school, the Deutsches Institut, Istituto Parola and Istituto Europeo, where for 5 years she was also the Director of Didactics and Cultural Activities.
Her pubblications include:
Massimo De Matteis
Administrative Director - Instructor of Italian Language
From 1993-2003, Massimo taught the Italian Language at Schools and Italian Language and Culture Institutes in Brazil.
From 1997 to 2002 he worked as the Director of Administration and Information Services for the Consiglio Direttivo del Comites (Committee for Italians Abroad) in Recife, Brazil.
With his experience in relations between both Italian and foreign, Public and Private Corporations, he has matured over years of work with the jurisdiction of the Italian Consulate in Recife, as well as with his activity as Coordinator of its Newspaper and as Promoter of Italian Culture, Massimo was called upon as an expert in Youth, Information and Italian language at the continental reunion of the CGIE (General Council of Italians Abroad) in Rio de Janiero (1999), at the Pre-Conference of Italians in the World in Montevideo (2000) and at the Conference of Italians in the World in Rome (2000).
Throughout his career he has also contributed to:
Rodolfo Tommasi
Director of the Art and Music Departments - Professor of History of Music, History of Opera, Stage Directing
Rodolfo Tommasi, a writer, a musicologist and a stage director of Melodrama and modern and contemporary opera (he is also a direct descendant of the famous Tommasi Macchiaoli painters - Adolfo, Angiolo and Ludovico, and although not a painter himself, his areas of expertise allow him to be active in the field of visual expression).
Since 1964 Rodolfo has been involved in cultural journalism, writing about literary works, music and theater for newspapers and magazines (in 1964 he began writing for "Il Ponte"); from 1970 to 1997 he worked for the RAI, at GR3. His research revolves mostly around literature and music and their correlation.
He has published numerous articles in the following fields:
iterary essays (among the more recent works):
essays on music:
poetry:
In the period from 1977-1986, Rodolfo taught at the music school of Sesto Fiorentino, the music school of Fiesole, and he was the artistic director of the International Courses on Renaissance and Baroque Music in Gargonza, and also for the "Festival Spazio Musica Antica"
In the field of the theater and performances, Rodolfo has been in charge of the direction of several stage productions, in Italy and also abroad:
Recently he has focused on the 19th-20th century repertory:
He has just published a Dictionary of Italian Writers of the 20th century for Helicon press and currently he is working on a book on the Theatrical/musical phenomenology of Giacomo Puccini.
Isabel Berger - Secretary and Student Services
After having finished her studies at a Professional business school in Zurich, Isabel was employed in several different offices there and in Italy.
Since she left Switzerland and came to Florence in 1997 she has worked at important language institutes for foreigners. Besides her native German, she also speaks French, English, and of course Italian, fluently.
For more information please contact us.
Upon your arrival, you will meet the members of our staff who will welcome you to Florence and Accademia Europea. They will assist you with any difficulties or questions you may have and will offer their suggestions and advice.
Edy Frollano
Academic Director - Instructor of Italian Language - Literature - Opera Libretti
Edy was born in Florence attended school and university there. After receiving her degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, she completed her specialization in Italian as a Foreign Language and the didactics of modern and ancient Italian at the University of Siena.
Since 1989 she has taught Italian Language, Literature and Opera Libretti to foreigners, at the Dante Alighieri school, the Deutsches Institut, Istituto Parola and Istituto Europeo, where for 5 years she was also the Director of Didactics and Cultural Activities.
Her pubblications include:
- L'Italiano all'opera, ed. Bonacci;
- an essay on the poet Andrea Chénier;
- a study on Mozart's Zauberflöte (published by the Teatro Comunale di Firenze);
- Pietro Metastasio: Note intorno ai bei versi, ed. SMSF;
- in collaboration with Rodolfo Tommasi: Un Pratolini ignorato - Il mannello di Natascia o la rivoluzione romantica. -, ed Shakespeare and company;
- several segments of Storia dell'editoria d'Europa, ed. Shakespeare and company;
- A translation of “Filosofia delle Architetture Musicali in G. Battistelli” (The Philosophy of the Musical Architecture of G. Bastistelli) for the Teatro Comunale of Florence.
Massimo De Matteis
Administrative Director - Instructor of Italian Language
From 1993-2003, Massimo taught the Italian Language at Schools and Italian Language and Culture Institutes in Brazil.
From 1997 to 2002 he worked as the Director of Administration and Information Services for the Consiglio Direttivo del Comites (Committee for Italians Abroad) in Recife, Brazil.
With his experience in relations between both Italian and foreign, Public and Private Corporations, he has matured over years of work with the jurisdiction of the Italian Consulate in Recife, as well as with his activity as Coordinator of its Newspaper and as Promoter of Italian Culture, Massimo was called upon as an expert in Youth, Information and Italian language at the continental reunion of the CGIE (General Council of Italians Abroad) in Rio de Janiero (1999), at the Pre-Conference of Italians in the World in Montevideo (2000) and at the Conference of Italians in the World in Rome (2000).
Throughout his career he has also contributed to:
- the birth of the Italian Culture Institute in Fortaleza, Brazil;
- the elaboration and publication of the book "Murillo La Greca- Sua Arte Sua Vida" Recife 1999 in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Brazil;
- a presentation at the Exposition "Italians in Brazil, Italians of the North-East" Recife, 2000;
- a collaboration with the Institute of Italian Emigration in Sao Paulo;
- the technical coordination and marketing of the exhibit "Giacomo Balla 1894-1946 da io Balla a Ball'io" Recife, 2000 in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Rodolfo Tommasi
Director of the Art and Music Departments - Professor of History of Music, History of Opera, Stage Directing
Rodolfo Tommasi, a writer, a musicologist and a stage director of Melodrama and modern and contemporary opera (he is also a direct descendant of the famous Tommasi Macchiaoli painters - Adolfo, Angiolo and Ludovico, and although not a painter himself, his areas of expertise allow him to be active in the field of visual expression).
Since 1964 Rodolfo has been involved in cultural journalism, writing about literary works, music and theater for newspapers and magazines (in 1964 he began writing for "Il Ponte"); from 1970 to 1997 he worked for the RAI, at GR3. His research revolves mostly around literature and music and their correlation.
He has published numerous articles in the following fields:
iterary essays (among the more recent works):
- Pinocchio, analisi di un burattino, ed. Sansoni;
- Regina Barbara, la poesia di Dino Campana, ed. Polistampa).
essays on music:
- two studies on Mascagni, ed. Sonzogno;
- A colloquio con Ugalberto De Angelis, ed. Sonzogno;
- Il Teatro Comunale di Firenze: presenza e linguaggio, ed. De Agostini).
poetry:
- Per una rappresentazione di Euridice - intervento scenico sul melodramma di J. Peri e O. Rinuccini;
- Trilogia del silenzio, ed. La Ginestra;
- Trilogia della parola, ed. De Agostini.
In the period from 1977-1986, Rodolfo taught at the music school of Sesto Fiorentino, the music school of Fiesole, and he was the artistic director of the International Courses on Renaissance and Baroque Music in Gargonza, and also for the "Festival Spazio Musica Antica"
In the field of the theater and performances, Rodolfo has been in charge of the direction of several stage productions, in Italy and also abroad:
- Rappresentazione di hanima et di corpo by E. d' Cavalieri;
- La barca di Venezia per Padova by A. Banchieri;
- the Intermezzi for La Pellegrina;
- Euridice by J. Peri;
- Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell;
- Intenzione Monteverdi, Il sogno di Orfeo (music by Peri, Monteverdi, Gluck);
- La Serva Padrona and Lo frate 'nnamorato (by Pergolesi).
Recently he has focused on the 19th-20th century repertory:
- Intenzione Rossini, Dalla casa del diavolo (music by Monteverdi/Pergolesi/Boccherini);
- Umana Dea (a study on Norma by V. Bellini);
- Amor Difforme (a study on Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi);
- Il giardino di Arianna by G. Melai- D. Bertini - A. Sidney.
He has just published a Dictionary of Italian Writers of the 20th century for Helicon press and currently he is working on a book on the Theatrical/musical phenomenology of Giacomo Puccini.
Isabel Berger - Secretary and Student Services
After having finished her studies at a Professional business school in Zurich, Isabel was employed in several different offices there and in Italy.
Since she left Switzerland and came to Florence in 1997 she has worked at important language institutes for foreigners. Besides her native German, she also speaks French, English, and of course Italian, fluently.
For more information please contact us.
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