Dr. Matteo Dalle Fratte is an Italian language coach, musicologist and tenor. He studied singing in Italy with Paolo Badoer, a pupil of Gilda Dalla Rizza, Puccini's favourite soprano. Since 2009, Matteo has conducted extensiveresearch into sung Italian diction, including a research fellowship in Italian phonetics for opera at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) in London. He founded Melofonetica in 2014 to provide training in sung Italian and is Artistic Director of Melofonetica's Veneto Opera Summer School and Arte Lirica Festival in Italy.Matteo teaches at UK conservatoires including the Royal College of Music, GSMD, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Morley College, and on the Global Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio and Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Matteo also coaches for the UK's leading opera companies and record labels including the Royal Opera House, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, Grange Park Opera, Opera Rara, The English Concert, The Mozartists, Nevill Holt Opera, The Grange Festival and Universal Music.His musicological work includes publishing Giovanni Lunardi: un tenore drammatico fra Tamagno e Caruso in 2004 and Il Teatro Sociale di Bassano in 2005. He has collaborated with the Fondazione Monteverdi on critical editions of Monteverdi and Bellini operas and previously worked as a music critic for Rassegna Melodrammatica and Gazzettino in Italy.Matteo achieved a degree in Italian Literature and Musicology with distinction from the University of Padua in 2003, with a thesis on Gilda Dalla Rizza and Giacomo Puccini, and a master's degree in Music in Performance from GSMD in 2009.