On a spring evening in Rome, the wisteria in its first bloom outside, Eva Giulia Cadeddu, 13, sits at the piano in the open, light-filled living room of her family’s apartment and plays Chopin’s Waltz No. 19 in A Minor.
As the notes float through the air, the scene around her is one of happy chaos: Sofia, 2, leans against the piano bench, grasping a small plastic toy, listening intently. Clara, 10, and Veronica, 6, lie on the floor nearby playing with Lego.
Veronica and Sofia’s mother, Ukrainian Iryna Tselep, tidies up other toys, as the older girls’ mother, Canadian Charlotta Jull, slides pizza in
