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Riccardo Muti kicked up a fuss over the Villa Verdi, and he appears to have gotten results. He appears to have shamed the government into action. Muti has the weight in Italy to do such a thing. Do we have a cultural figure in America with similar weight?
Let me back up.
Riccardo Muti is the esteemed conductor who has led La Scala, the Philadelphia Orchest...
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