ROME -- It isn't every day that a conductor concedes an encore for an opera chorus. Even rarer is asking the audience to sing it, but maestro Riccardo Muti has just done so for the love of homeland.
Italian director Riccardo Muti conducts during a concert offered to the Pope by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Max Rossi By Isla Binnie ROME ...