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2004 SANTA FE OPERA
Conductor Corrado Rovaris and director Stefano Vizioli have worked together many times in the past 20 years, but their collaboration on Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is new territory for both of them.See the full content of this document
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'Simon Boccanegra' Sailing Artistic Seas
Conversing in English (because my command of Italian wasn't up to the task), we talked about how easy -- but dangerous -- it is to speak opera-libretto Italian, which is full
of 19th-century anachronisms and bears little resemblanceto contemporary Italian. But meanings are likewise lost in translation from one language to another. When he first cameto the United States, Rovaris said he was puzzledby people's r...See the full content of this document
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