Italian Festival a Big Success
New York’s annual Italian Cultural Festival once again proved extremely popular with people around the city. The festival ------- to an end last night with a free performance of the opera “Carmen” in
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Central Park. Organizers are suggesting that over 20,000 people attended last night’s event. A further 100,000 people are believed to have taken part in some of the festival’s other -------.
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The head of the festival’s organizing committee, Angela di Venuto, was very delighted with this year’s turnout: “It’s great that so many New Yorkers come out to celebrate this great city’s Italian heritage.” She suggested that next year’s festival would be even bigger, with more events and performances planned. New York City mayor Bob Gordon, who was in ------- at last night’s opera, was also thrilled with the
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success of this year’s festival. He said that events such as this “prove what an amazing city New York is.”
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