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Countermeasure

By: Lexie Burns and Kassidy Hudson Each summer, Musica nelle Marche provides student musicians with the opportunity to travel to Urbino, Italy to immerse themselves in the local culture and the country’s rich musical history. In the summer of 2023, opera student Volodymyr Lymar traveled with the program from DePaul University in Chicago. He offers insight into why he loves opera, how the Urbino program has furthered his studies, and how the experiece has helped prepare him for a career as a countertenor singer.

Reinterpreting The Ducal Palace

By Louisa Mattozzi with additional photography by Emma Ihara and Madi Rohm Urbino, Italy – Since 1912, visitors from around the world have made the journey to walk the halls of the National Gallery of Le Marche in the Ducale Palace of this historic Renaissance city. But the collection’s most significant piece of art has remained largely overlooked—the palace itself. That ended when Luca Molinari began his exhibit on the palace’s architecture, “The Ducal Palace. The Fragments and the Whole.” This exhibit explores the unique aspects of the palace—and it’s located so that visitors must pass through it before seeing… Read More »Reinterpreting The Ducal Palace

ESN Urbino: The Evolution of the Erasmus Experience

By Paige Mudd Urbino, Italy – Albano Nezho, an Italian student, stepped off the train on the first day of his study abroad program in Germany. “I was in the middle of Germany without [anyone] I know,” he said. “I was like, ‘Okay, now what?’” Just a day later Nezho found the cure for his anxiety: the Erasmus Student Network, or ESN. It was his experience in Germany that motivated him to join ESN Urbino when he returned.  Albano Nezho. Photo by Madi Rohm Erasmus is a program organized by the European Community (EC) to give university students opportunities to… Read More »ESN Urbino: The Evolution of the Erasmus Experience