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Michieletto gained attention with Jaromír Weinberger’s “Svanda the Bagpiper” at the 2003 Wexford Festival in Ireland and “La Gazza Ladra” at the 2007 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy.

An Italian court in Pesaro had ordered it seized and returned in 2010, at the height of Italy’s campaign to recover antiquities looted from its territory and sold to museums and private collectors around the globe.

Pesaro, an Adriatic beach town in the region of Marche, reported flooding, while in Cesena, a city in the neighboring region of Emilia-Romagna, the Savio River overflowed its banks and inundated streets.

Michele Ferri, from the central Italian city of Pesaro, told Reuters the pope sounded better in their most recent conversation than he had the last time the two men spoke in January.

He first conducted the Rossini at the 1998 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, with the assistance of Rossini scholar Alberto Zedda and musicologist Philip Gossett.