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Mythic collection “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” will be on display at the Art Institute of Chicago until May 27. From large-scale figures of gods and goddesses to busts of emperors and magnificent funerary monuments, the exhibition brings 58 rarely-seen sculptures to North America for the first time. The Torlonia Collection is the largest private collection of Roman marble sculptures in Italy. Nearly half of the sculptures in the traveling exhibit have not been publicly displayed in more than 70 years and have been newly cleaned, conserved and studied specifically for the purpose. For more, click …

Italian conductor Emanuele Andrizzi spent years laying the groundwork for the creation of the Opera Festival of Chicago, which marked its fifth season this summer. A native of Rome, Andrizzi led the orchestral program at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University for more than a decade before being appointed in August as director of orchestral studies at Shenandoah University’s Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. Over the years, he has conducted at Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Philharmonic, Orchestra della Città di Ravenna, Opera Theater of St. Louis and Cluj …

  Passionate about opera in general and lesser known Italian works in particular, Emanuele Andrizzi has set his sights on launching the Midwest’s first opera festival. Conductor, composer and pianist Dr. Emanuele Andrizzi caps his emails with the declaration of another Italian artist, World War I-era writer Gabriele D’Annunzio: “Ama il tuo sogno se pur ti tormenta,” or “Love your dream even though it torments you.” It’s a refreshing tonic to the somewhat mushy 21st-Century mantra “do what you love.” And it defines Andrizzi’s steady path toward artistic mastery. Grit and persistence characterize Andrizzi, who started learning his craft, honing …