Empathic Mirroring and Reflected Metaphor: Mirror Neurons in the Service of Opera Singing

The valuable work Manuela Kriscak did has been introduced, through an important preface, by Prof. Dr. Franco Fussi, a well-known Italian ENT and Phoniatrician who has been dealing with vocality for years. It comes from her Course of Higher Education in Artistic Vocology of Ravenna by Università of Bologna degree thesis, and invite us to think about a feasible neuroscientific standpoint in the pedagogy of educational orientation, where it is demonstrated how, through specific exercises, the action of Mirror Neurons can be activated (neurons that are activated both when someone performs an action and when the same person observes the same action performed by another) integrating them into a broader language where technique, expression and empathy meet in the study of opera singing.