The board of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy’s second most importnat opera house, has named Elisabetta Riva as the new Sovrintendente, starting immediately.
Riva, 52, has been director for the past ten years of an Italian theatre in Buenos Aires.
This appears to be her principal qalification.
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