The Parade itself is merely the climax to a weekend of activities. The entire month of September is a blur of frenetic movement…The tremendous crowd of supporters waving their Italian and American flags will not be thinking of the Columbus Citizens Foundation’s mission, which entails a lot more than organizing...

From the moment I held Verdi’s Nabucco in my hands I knew that I could not turn down the invitation of teaching opera stars how to sing in Italian. But it’s not only about pronunciation. Flow of the language, the correlation between the spoken and sung verse and theatricality are...