30 Dec 2007
Genoa Opera Hires New Artistic Director
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/resources/musicalamerica/article.html?record=5873
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/resources/musicalamerica/article.html?record=5873
House's troubles a major challenge for Italy's first top woman opera manager
by Carlo Vitali [MusicalAmerica.com, 27 December 2007]
BOLOGNA, Dec. 26 -- Cristina Ferrari is the new artistic director of Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice, one of Italy's 14 Fondazioni lirico-sinfoniche, or chartered opera houses. The announcement, made Saturday, is a surprise, since no woman at a comparable managerial level is to be found elsewhere in the country's opera system.