Rizzo, John H.

John H. Rizzo, whose first novel, Augie, was published in 2012, is a veteran author and essayist. He is currently the chief staff writer for Amici Journal, an Italian-American Magazine. For over twenty-five years he has written comprehensively on opera and Italian culture. Many of his essays can be read on www.italianoperachicago.com, the official Internet organ of the Italian Opera Company of Chicago, a professional organization which he founded in 2001, and of which he is the artistic director. Mr. Rizzo has an extensive professional background in music and theater, and has appeared in sever...