Old and young alike are now benefiting from the composer’s home for retired musicians
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Renato Franco Perversi and Irena Domowicz are squabbling over who does the better rendition of the Neapolitan classic, O Sole Mio. Perversi, 87, sings deep, while Domowicz, who says you must never ask a woman her age, immediately replicates the kind of performance she might have given during her career as a mezzo-soprano.
“There is more theatre in here sometimes than in the outside world,” she joked.