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by Michele Manzotti, journalist (Firenze)

Italy is known worldwide as the Belcanto country. Unfortunately, even if many Italian singers are famous, a cappella style is not very popular. In fact singing is considered more a practice for a soloist, due to our opera tradition: After the madrigals era, great composers decide to focus their efforts on the opera genre, that in past centuries became very popular.  Today Italian groups are not so well followed by audiences as they deserve. The Anglo-Saxon tradition is more appreciated by Mehr…