The death has been announced of Luciano Alberti, former artistic director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and of the Teatro Comunale in Florence. He was 94. He was also Professor of History of Music at […]
She was half-French, half-Italian, spoke six languages and sang in twice as many. The mega-hits of Caterina Valente, who has died in Switzerland at 93, came mostly in the 1950s. She made her breakthrough in […]