Jan 16, 2019
Moses stages a comeback
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On the modern premiere of an oratorio about the life of Moses.
Topic: “Italy”
Dec 06, 2018
Il castello di Donizetti
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On the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, Italy.
Oct 31, 2018
Machiavelli, man of the people
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A review of Reading Machiavelli by John McCormick.
Aug 24, 2018
Week in review
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On Italian art battles, atomic bombs, mourning Chippendale & more.
Aug 07, 2018
Nile & Euphrates by the Adige
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On two Verdi operas in Verona’s historic Roman amphitheater.
Reconsiderations February 2018
Manzoni’s unfulfilled legacy
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On the economic lessons of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed.
May 16, 2017
Playful, dark, and right
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On Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Scala.
Jan 05, 2017
Guido Cagnacci at the Frick
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On Cagnacci’s “Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece” at the Frick Collection.
Notebook January 2017
The Italian job
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On the Italian referendum and the unraveling of Europe.
Letter from . . . January 2017
After the Great Flood of Florence
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On the wreckage and recovery of art works in the Arno River flood of 1966.