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Italian Opera Houses On The Brink
With three of Italy's 14 major opera houses in receivership and budgets badly stretched at the rest, the upcoming cuts in the nation's cultural budget are causing serious concern. "There is almost no private support of the arts in Italy - there are no tax incentives to drive that - and the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi warned months ago that every theater, museum and archeological site had become a luxury." Chicago Tribune 12/25/08
With three of Italy's 14 major opera houses in receivership and budgets badly stretched at the rest, the upcoming cuts in the nation's cultural budget are causing serious concern. "There is almost no private support of the arts in Italy - there are no tax incentives to drive that - and the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi warned months ago that every theater, museum and archeological site had become a luxury." Chicago Tribune 12/25/08
Posted December 26, 2008 07:36 AM
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