by David Wright

San Francisco Opera became Hollywood by the Bay as the company unveiled the war opera Two Women (La Ciociara), composed and co-written by Marco Tutino, Saturday night at the War Memorial Opera House. Two Women was a co-commission of the SFO and the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.

If its title sounds familiar, that's because Two Women has earned a sentence or two in cinema history as the American title of La Ciociara (The Woman from Ciociaria), a 1960 film by director Vittorio De Sica, now remembered mainly for an Oscar-winning performance by Sophia Loren as the mother Cesira.

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Source: http://theclassicalreview.com/