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  Food for thought Italian Film Festival USA will present “Three Goodbyes” at 6 p.m. on May 11 at Northwestern University, Kresge Hall 1515. Marta and Antonio split up after a trivial argument. Marta experiences a sudden lack of appetite and Antonio, a rising chef, immerses himself in his work. But despite being the one who ended things, Antonio can’t seem to forget Marta. When she discovers that her loss of appetite has more to do with her own health than the pain of separation, everything changes: the taste of food, the music, the desire, the certainty of the choices …

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 …