Opera is as fundamental to Italy's soul as the Colosseum, Michelangelo or pasta. To attend an opera performance here in the summer is a quintessential Italian experience - especially if you're willing to brave the complex process for getting astonishingly cheap last-minute tickets. "I don't understand a word of Italian, but I had to be here for the experience," Ravindran Kanesvaran, a young oncologist from Singapore, confessed in a whisper as we waited in La Scala, Italy's most famous opera...
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