'Two Women' goes from novel and film to opera
by Janos Gereben San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti sounds like a proud midwife, talking about this week's world premiere of "Two Women" ("La Ciociara") in the War Memorial Opera House. "It involves Italian and American people in a very dramatic moment of our mutual history, leading up to the liberation of 1940s Italy from the Nazis and Fascists," says the conductor, who recruited fellow I…