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The lockdown in Italy turns Jessica Pratt into a brilliant cook

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Il soprano Jessica Pratt. Source: Courtesy of Jessica Pratt

Forced home by the lockdown, the "queen of Belcanto", Jessica Pratt, reveals that she has learned to cook, to dedicate herself personally to the care of stray animals that she saves and to prune the olive trees of her estate in Fiesole.


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Forced home by the lockdown, the "queen of Belcanto", Jessica Pratt, reveals that she has learned to cook, to dedicate herself personally to the care of stray animals that she saves and to prune the olive trees of her estate in Fiesole.


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