Linda Cantoni
Linda Cantoni
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Websites : Regina Opera Company, New York Opera Alliance Blog, Linda Cantoni

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Associated with The Regina Opera Company, part of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Publishing Partner Program.
BIOGRAPHY

Linda Cantoni has worked with the Regina Opera Company in various capacities -- onstage, backstage, and offstage -- since its inception forty years ago. She currently serves on its Board of Directors and its Casting Committee. She has been the stage director for nearly three dozen opera productions and appeared in dozens more in small parts and in the chorus. She now provides the English supertitles translations for all Regina productions performed in Italian or French. She also oversees Regina's website, for which her opera summaries have been molded into Britannica entries here. In her other life, Ms. Cantoni is an attorney in New York City. She is the co-author of The Art of Argument and Think Like a Lawyer: The Art of Argument for Law Students.

Primary Contributions (24)
Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi, comic opera in one act by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini that premiered at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918. The composer’s only comic opera, it contains the well-known soprano aria “O mio babbino caro” (“Oh My Dear Father”). (The opera’s title is…
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Publications (2)
Think Like a Lawyer
Think Like a Lawyer (October 2004)
By Gary Fidel Cantoni, Linda Cantoni
THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS To succeed in law school, you have to construct solid legal arguments. THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS will teach you how to master this craft. This step-by-step approach, written by career prosecutors Gary Fidel and Linda Cantoni, is the indispensable guide for law students.
The Art of Argument
The Art of Argument (March 2001)
By Linda Cantoni, Gary Fidel
Thinking like a lawyer is no deep dark trade secret. Anyone of reasonable intelligence can do it. You don't need three years of law school, $60,000 in student loans, or a three-day bar exam to make a persuasive argument. In Think Like a Lawyer: The Art of Argument, seasoned attorneys Gary Fidel and Linda Cantoni show you step-by-step how to do it and do it well. All it takes is the discipline to organize your thoughts before you express them, and to keep your arguments as simple and direct as possible....
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