ITALIAN MUSIC FEATURES AT OMAN'S ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

(VELINO) Roma, 18 Jun - Italy is to put on several productionsat the Mascate Royal Opera House in Oman next season. Theprogramme features Macbeth by the Teatro dell'Opera di Trieste,Falstaff by the Teatro La Scala and Don Pasquale by the TeatroComunale di Bologna. A concert with Riccardo Muti is scheduledfor March. The Italian Ambassador in Mascate, Paola Amadei,praised the collaboration with the Royal Opera House and saidthe embassy had helped to create and support the Teatro diMacerata's training course for young Omani technicians andoperators in Italy in June and July. She said an Italianmusicologist from the Sultan Qaboos University would presentthe Italian pieces to the audience before the beginning of theoperas. vel.