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Lorenzo Mariani is a stage director of opera in Italy, the United States, Israel, Finland, and across the world. From 2005 to 2012 Mariani has been artistic director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The Teatro Massimo is the largest theatre in Italy.〔(BBC - Wales - Cardiff Singer of the World - About Cardiff Singer - Lorenzo Mariani )〕 ==Early life== Mariani was born in New York, where he was surrounded by opera music and performers throughout his childhood. In 1924, his father Adolph Mariani opened the ''Asti''restaurant. Over the next 75 years it became a Greenwich Village landmark because, every night, the restaurant resounded with the sounds of Italian opera and song. The waiters would break into spontaneous arias, and many of the customers were stars of the theater and opera world. Some rising opera stars, such as tenor Rinaldo Toglia, would sing full-time at the restaurant without having to wait tables.〔(The curtain is falling on a restaurant where opera's been on the menu for 75 yrs. - New York Daily News )〕 The walls of ''Asti''contained autographed photos of Babe Ruth, Noël Coward and Arturo Toscanini, as well as a chorus full of great opera singers - Luciano Pavarotti, Mario Lanza, Joan Sutherland and Jussi Bjöerling. There were even four theater seats from the old Metropolitan Opera House.〔 All of this opera tradition surrounded Lorenzo Mariani, even before he graduated from The Taft School in 1973 and from Harvard College in 1977.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lorenzo Mariani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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