This workshop is designed for students interested in learning Italian language through an immersive and artistic approach. The course combines standard language instruction—grammar, conversation, pronunciation, listening and vocabulary—with creative and performative activities such as music, theatre, creative writing, poetry, and vocal expression.
The methodology is communicative and experiential. Students learn Italian not only through traditional exercises, but also through rhythm, performance, interaction, listening, and emotional connection to the language.
Classes include:
Spoken communication and pronunciation
Listening comprehension
Italian phonetics and musicality
Vocabulary acquisition through artistic contexts
Confidence in speaking and performance
Cultural immersion through Italian music, theatre and literature
The workshop is open for beginners to advanced and can be adapted to different age groups and artistic backgrounds.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Giovanni Amodeo has been teaching Italian to students of all ages both privately and within institutions for over twenty years where he has developed his unique curricula, Teatrando l’Italiano courses, an engaging teaching method employing a range of artistic expressions to enhance Italian language learning and performances. He’s a vocal coach having taught Italian language and diction for opera singers including Tommy Ohira, Martha Frinzilla and Fedele Antonicelli. As an interpreter and translator he’s collaborated with Joerg Bremer, Rome correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jonathan Harr on his novel, The Lost Caravaggio, and Tommy Ohira on his vignette series The Sea. As an actor and singer he appeared in “Notizie dal mondo,” a show by author Luigi Pirandello for the Company of Carlo di Maio in Rome, Italy and as a solo performed in cabarets.
