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BRUNO BARTOLETTI Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, June 10, 1926—Florence, Italy, June 9, 2013 A brilliant, idiomatic interpreter of the Italian repertoire and the longtime artistic director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bartoletti was a beloved figure in...

The Handel Festival in Halle, which since 1922 has annually presented a festival featuring the composer's work in the city of his birth, has been forced to cancel this year's slated offerings because of extreme flooding by the Saale river. The...