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Simone Lai

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Simone Lai is a freelance reporter, researcher and translator based in Turin, northern Italy, focused on culture and travel.

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For more than a decade, opera singer Daria Spada (center) and punk guitarist Maksim Cristan (far left)  have performed free weekly concerts on their apartment balcony in Turin, Italy.

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How an Apartment Balcony Became One of Italy's Best-Known Stages

Nothing—not city fines, a pandemic, or home renovations—can stop the music.

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