The voices of Francesca

Halyna Yavorska was born in Ternopil (Ukraine) in 1961. She took her degree in Russian philology at the Ivan Franko State University of Leopoli (Lvov) in 1986. She has a deep knowledge of languages and of Russian and Ukrainian literature. Since 1999 she has lived in Italy where she is an interpreter and translator of Russian and Ukrainian. She has worked in Milan in the National Museum of Science and Technology, in the MMT Language Center and in the Italo-Russian Association. She also has had [...]

Susanna Kwon (Kwon Soo-Jung), a soprano, took her degree at the Seoul Music University and since 1995 has lived in Italy where she has come to maturity with C. Castellani, R. O. Malaspina, N. Palacios, R. Kabaivanska and G. Scalchi.  The winner of international competitions, continually busy on the concert platform, she has made recordings for the Dynamic and Philharmonia studios. In 2001 she made her debut on the opera stage.  In 2002 she was inter alia the guest of the opera gala A Rose [...]

Hripsime  Rita Mkrtĉjan was born in the town of Erevan (Armenia) in 1954.  She studied in the Erevan Polytechnic University.  She worked as an engineer specialising in the science of energy in one of the energy institutes in Erevan.  For many years she led a department of that institute. Among her hobbies are journalism, music, theatre and poetry.  From time to time she writes articles in town newspapers.  She studied Esperanto in 1977.  She took part in various Esperanto meetings and World Congresses up to [...]

Prior to joining Yale University, where she serves as dean of the Center for International and Professional Experience, Jane Edwards served as dean of Harvard University's new Directorate for International Studies, where she launched an ambitious experience program international for graduating students. She played a similar role for ten years at Wesleyan University, where she also led a program related to less frequently taught languages ​​and served as a lecturer in the Romance philology department. She was born in Wales, she earned her BA and [...]

Farideh Mahdavi Damghani is an Iranian lady of letters and a translator, born in 1963 in Teheran where she lives with her husband and three children. Right from the start she was taught by her father, a lecturer in Persian and Arab literature at the University of Teheran, to appreciate literature and the classics, European as well as Persian.  So it was that, right from the age of nine, Farideh began to read works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Book of the [...]

Angela Cataluddi, is originally from San Nicandro Garganico, a small town of northern Apulia, in the Gargano peninsula. Angela comes from a long and multifaceted artistic education that includes the musical arts of opera singing, violin and piano. She follows paths in international contexts that allow her to enrich the perceptions and visions of the world and of her own Mediterranean origins. She studies and sings in England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Luxembourg. She is comfortable between different languages and dialects, is bilingual (Italian [...]