{"id":246,"date":"2012-11-15T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2021-09-11T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:37:36","slug":"italian-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/italian-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Opera in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is a common notion among Americans that Italians enjoy life more than the rest of us.\u00a0 But that\u00a0isn’t\u00a0exactly accurate, nor is the point.\u00a0 I think it would be closer to the truth to say that Italians appreciate<\/em> life more than the rest us.\u00a0 The good, the bad, and everything in between; they really immerse themselves in it fully, they don’t mind when things get messy. \u00a0In fact, sometimes it seems the messier, the better. \u00a0Which reminds me of a night last summer when I finally saw my first opera here in Rome.\u00a0 It was worth the wait, because the Teatro dell\u2019Opera di Roma <\/em>put on a fantastic performance of Bellini\u2019s \u201cNorma<\/em>,\u201d among the extraterrestrial dreamscape of the Terme di Caracalla<\/em> in the historical heart of ancient Rome.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n