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March 21, 2022

“The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” Is Now an Opera

A tale of the Italian Holocaust—and an appreciation for liberty.

Published in 1962, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis—part of the Italian Jewish writer and partisan Giorgio Bassani’s sextet of novels about his native Ferrara—is best known because of the 1970 film adaptation. Now it has also been made into an opera, which debuted at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Jay Nordlinger writes in his review:

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