After many years of performing, Francesca is quickly gaining a reputation as a teacher of note, with full studios in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and online.  As a teacher, Francesca is known for her exacting yet nurturing work in the studio, using a technique stemming from the Swedish and Italian schools, as well as Feldenkrais movement, to repair and build the voices of her clients who are professionally working in opera, musical theater, jazz and rock, as well as nurturing younger talent with the healthy foundation for technique in both western classical and CCM disciplines.   
 

 

Client engagements for her working professional adults in the past few seasons include role debuts and lead performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Opera, Florentine Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Buhne Baden, Hamburger Kammeroper, Grimeborn Festival, Boston Baroque, Austin Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Festival, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Orlando, Opera Birmingham, and many more.

 

 Some of her current clients have also recently and presently hold chorus appointments with such companies as  Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Vancouver Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Canadian Opera Company, and Chicago Lyric Opera.

 

The musical theater performers in Francesca's studio have performed on Broadway  in leads, swing and ensemble appointments in musical theater productions as The Notebook (Broadway), Phantom of the Opera (Broadway), Sweeney Todd (Broadway national tour), Carousel (Broadway), A Bronx Tale (Broadway), The Last Ship (Broadway); Disney Aladdin (North American Tour); and lead singers in rock bands on national and international tour at such venues as the Gramercy Theatre in NYC, The Viper Room in LA, the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Live at Heart Festival (Sweden), Rocker Hannover (Germany), and more.

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Pre-pandemic, Francesca was been on visiting faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music from 2017, as well as a guest master teacher for the Young Artist Program at Vancouver Opera from 2018.  She has also worked as a Mentor for the ArtSmart Foundation headed by Michael Fabiano.

 

Francesca completed undergraduate and graduate studies at The Curtis Institute of Music. She also furthered her musical education as a participant at the Music Academy of the West under Marilyn Horne. For two years she was a Studio Artist at The Theatre of St. Louis, where she was the winner of the Stanley L. Richman Award. She was also a Studio Artist with Sarasota Opera and a member of IVAI Tel Aviv and Montreal under Joan Dornemann, where she was the first singer ever to receive a unanimous faculty vote as the Silverman Award recipient.  Francesca was a two time grant winner from the Olga Forrai Foundation, as well as a recpient from the Amadeus Fund.  As a performer, Francesca enjoyed many years on the stage, singing lead roles in the dramatic soprano repertoire for such diverse opera companies such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Spontini Festivale, Nashville Opera, Opera Sarasota, (the now defunct) Baltimore Opera, Boheme Opera NJ, Opera Baltimore, Anchorage Opera, Skylight Opera Theater and many more, as well as concert and recital work for Opera Delaware, Bach Festival of New York, the Richard Tucker Foundation, and others.