December 2018: the “III World Week of Italian Cuisine” organized by the Italian Embassy in Kiev ends with a great Opera Gala. Aurelio Canonici conducts Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists from the Kharkiv Opera Theatre in a great and applauded program inspired by food. Tosca II Act, Don Giovanni Finale, the “Brindisi” from Traviata and Otello, the Parsifal Prelude from Wagner, together with Overtures by Bellini, Mozart, Ciaikovskij and Rossini.