CV

2024–

BA student of Old Catholic Theology (University of Bern)

2014

Doctorate (PhD) in Literature magna cum laude (Universitat de València)

2010

MA Singing (Musical Performance) cum laude (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel)

2006

Two-semester Classical Philology cum laude (Universitat de València)

2005

Spanish high school teaching certificate (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón)

2005

Lic. (BA+MA) Translation and Interpreting (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón)

2004

Piano diploma cum laude (Vila-real, Spain)

2000

Classical baccalaureate cum laude (Castellón de la Plana, Spain)

1983

Born in Scandiano (Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Publications

2024

«Un’opera tutta delicata: Vokalästhetik im Demetrio von Caldara & Metastasio (Wien 1731),» in Musik & Ästhetik 112 (Oktober 2024) 18-35

2024

«Forum: Gibt es eine geschlechtsspezifische Musikalität?» in Musik & Ästhetik 109 (Januar 2024) 67-69

2023

Anthologia 1991–2023: Poesie fino ai quarant’anni. (KDP Amazon) [Gedichtbuch] ISBN 978-3952585900

2020

« “Dell’opra eccitator primiero: Metastasio, Farinelli e Ferdinando VI nelle dediche gemelle per la Nitteti del 1756,» in Margini XIV (Universität Basel: 2020)

2019

Rules for Measured Music, Counterpoint and Accompanying (Anonymous, MS E.25 Bologna) (ed./trans. F. Ferri-Benedetti; EarlyMusicSources.com, 2019)

2015

«Metastasio adaptado para el teatro español – El caso de la Issipile,» in Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico (Vol. V, pp. 2501-2523)

2015

El hilo de Hipsípila: Metastasio y la Tradición Clásica (Bari: Levante) ISBN 978-8879496544

2013

«”La tua Grecia, la quale a me non è Dio”: Martello y Metastasio reinterpretando a Aristóteles,» in Humanitas LXV (Univ. de Coimbra). 219-250

2013

«Hypsipyle from Lemnos to Vienna: an Approach to the Metastasian Heroine,» in Tycho I (Universitat de València) 9-38

2012

«El legado de la tradición clásica: el caso de la ópera barroca,» in Florentia Iliberritana XXIII (Universidad de Granada) 45-62

2011

Conti/Metastasio: Issipile (Vienna 1732) (ed. F. Ferri-Benedetti) (Älgarås: Gran Tonante)

Teaching positions

2019–

Lecturer Coach for singing and Italian diction (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, FHNW)

2018–2024

Lecturer in historical singing and Italian diction (Zurich University of the Arts)

2015

Guest lecturer in voice (ZHdK)

2011–

Masterclasses as a guest in Madrid, Valencia (Hochschule für Musik), Zurich (ZHdK), Munich (Theaterakademie), Freiburg i. B. (Hochschule für Musik), Boston (BEMF) and Vilnius (University of Music), among others.

2008–

Private singing and diction lessons in Spain and Switzerland

GRATUV (Grup de Recerca i Acció Teatral de la Universitat de València)