RAINA DIVA

Being Art Publishers involves, in addition to countless charges and problems, the honour and privilege of being in costant relationship with the beauty and its creators.

However, this relationship can not always be a personal relationship, indeed, it almost never is: Raina Kabaivanska represents a sublime exception!

Meeting her, knowing her and having immediately gained her friendship represented for us and for our publishing house a source of immense pride that guided and encouraged us in the realisation of this volume dedicated to her.

We hope we have lived up to the task and have worthily illustrated her Art and her incredible sense of humanity.

Let us emphasise, however, that this difficult task, a dream for all of us at the beginning, was made possible by Mrs Kabaivanska herself, thanks to her immense generosity, helpfulness and kindness, all qualities of the Great Ones.

Raina Kabaivanska is a star of rare and precious beauty in the opera firmament and this Volume aims to further spread her splendour.

Thanks to real and deep artists like Raina Kabaivanska the opera can continue to resound in our souls with unaltered modernity, after more than four hundred years of history.

So, from all of us lovers of the beauty:

Thank you, Raina!

Giorgio Armaroli

Federico Ferrari

Scripta Maneant Editore

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