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Many of them have found their first professional outlet at the Festival and have gone on to enjoy successful careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this has contributed to a radical change in the panorama of international opera: works that until recently were considered unperformable due to the lack of singers capable of interpreting them are now in the repertoire of the great theatres; just think of the countless performances of Viaggio a Reims, rediscovered after more than a century and a half of oblivion and now a regular guest on the world&#8217;s billboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en\/archivio-accademia\/\" style=\"border-radius:0px;color:#005728\">WATCH THE ARCHIVES<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ad5729be9ded320170d53a042ab0442d\" style=\"color:#054997\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accademia was born in 1989 as part of the Rossini Opera Festival and was directed until 2016 by Alberto Zedda, to whom it was named after his death. 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