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SAN FRANCISCO’S OPERA PREMIERE IN ITALIAN

SAN FRANCISCO’S OPERA PREMIERE IN ITALIAN

Tutino Work Recalls World War Atrocities SAN FRANCISCO—The Italian world premiere opera “Two Women” is a vibrant old-style melodrama with immediate appeal, one that will play even better when it arrives in Italy. A World War Two tragedy became a novel, then film that had propelled Sophia Loren into super-stardom, and now a searing opera of a woman’s wartime ordeal composed by the retiring, soft-spoken Marco Tutino, 60. Tutino’s musical roots lie close to Puccini’s cohorts of a century or…

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