—so grab a fan and maybe a sweater, because in these earthquake-shaken jewels that are Italian theatres, you’ll somehow be simultaneously sweltering chilled. In this installment, we’re taking a COVID-friendly trip to Italy! As a dual citizen who works and sometimes lives here, I’m writing this dispatch from Abruzzo, between two auditions. There remains, perhaps, a mysterious exoticism surrounding Italy’s rather opaque opera and see .
