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Oversized acting meets top-drawer singing at the Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago. 

"Grab ’em by the throat and never let ’em go!" goes the famous quote by legendary Hollywood director Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard, Some like it Hot, and Double Indemnity among his masterpieces – who regularly dispensed stellar advice to aspiring, young writers. Unlike good screenwriting, opera’s blood and thunder decree doesn’t need much coaching to bare its jugular.

Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato make their role debuts in the first production of Umberto Giordano's Fedora at the Teatro Carlo Felice for 15 years.