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, and took over the management of

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's acting company when it was close to financial collapse. During the last years of the

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he was part of the

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. He was a leading

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in postwar

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, managing the Teatro Nuovo and later the rebuilt

Teatro Manzoni The Teatro Manzoni is a theatre in the northern Italian city of Milan, located on the Via Manzoni. Opened in 1870 it was originally called the ''Teatro sociale di Milano'', before being renamed after Alessandro Manzoni following his death in 1873 ...

. With the music critic Fredinando Ballo he founded the

Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali The Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali (literally, the Musical Afternoon Orchestra) is an Italian orchestra resident in Milan, at the Teatro Dal Verme. It was founded in the period immediately after the Second World War by the theatre promoter Remi ...

.Rizzardi & De Benedictis p.218

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* Veniero Rizzardi & Angela Ida De Benedictis. ''New Music on the Radio: Experiences at the Studio Di Fonologia of the RAI, Milan, 1954–1959''. RAI ERI, 2000. 1899 births 1977 deaths Italian theatre managers and producers Italian journalists People from Formia Theatre people from Milan {{Italy-journalist-stub