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Recently, the Neapolitan’s San Carlo was reopened after renovations. What a lovely little gem. I’ve pulled some pics off of La Republica to see just what I’m talking about.
Donizetti composed 16 operas for this venue included Lucia di Lammermoor. Verdi had an orchestra pit added to better suite his works, and wrote Alzira, Luisa Miller, [...]

This is certainly a week of firsts. No I’m not talking about the first black American president, or the fact that I stopped introducing myself as Canadian to Europeans (why?).
I’m referring to the historic event this week at La Scala. According to “Der Standard” newspaper, for the first time in the history of this venue, [...]

It all started when my Italian girlfriend introduced me to “La Bella Figura – A Field Guide to the Italian Mind” by Beppe Severgnini. A comical book written by an Italian journalist who’s lived outside of Italy long enough to view his own people from an outsider’s perspective, and explain the differences. Such as, why [...]

You are in a public bathroom at a restaurant and you reach over to pull thepublic toilet prominently displayed cord to flush the toilet. The toilet doesn’t flush; instead sirens go off in the restaurant! Then you see the real flushing mechanism is not the emergency help cord you just pulled but the small white [...]