Maura Delpero’s film “Vermiglio,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is inspired by her own family in Italy during World War II.
It started with a novelty songwriter stranded on a snowy night. Decades later, listeners still can’t get his song, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” out of their heads.
Elza van den Heever, a star of “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” at the Metropolitan Opera, no longer sees dyslexia as a hindrance — just a different way of learning.