At the close of last year, Alex Ross, cultural writer for the world-famous magazine The New Yorker, announced what he believed to be the number one music event of 2011, not in New York, but in the entire world. And I was (kind of) there! Let me explain. Riccardo Muti, one of the greatest living Verdi conductors, recently signed on as director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
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