Teatro alla Scala

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Callas, Carlo and a new Etoile at La Scala

Hot topings at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. As Verdi’s Don Carlo, the big event of the season opening, is being rehearsed, we learn of the defection of René Pape in the role of Filippo II. He is replaced by Michele Pertusi (as is Ekaterina Semenchuk in the role of Eboli by Veronica Simeoni on 30 […]

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La Scala conquers Europe

The great conductor Riccardo Chailly is fulfilling his wish to take La Scala’s music outside its home in Milan. Under his direction, the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala will perform their finest repertoire, the choruses and overtures from Verdi’s operas, on tour from 31 August to 12 September 2023 in Verona, Grafenegg, Vienna, […]

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Never before seen at La Scala

From 6 to 22 June 2023 in Milan, the world’s most famous opera house will be hosting a masterpiece for the very first time, even though it has been performed everywhere else! Surprising as it may seem, Teatro alla Scala has never before performed Rusalka, Dvořák’s masterpiece. This will be done with Emma Dante’s new […]

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Jonas Kaufmann, Andrea is you!

Only two dates in Milan that are already sold out, Jonas Kaufmann once again unleashes the crowds in an Italian opera. Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier will be performed at Teatro alla Scala from 3 to 27 May 2023 with Yusif Eyvazov and Jonas Kaufmann for only two dates. After Vienna and the missed appointment in […]

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Legris in Orange with La Scala

The Teatro alla Scala is performing for the second time at the Chorégies d’Orange. After a major concert with Maestro Riccardo Chailly last season, it is now the turn of the ballet company, directed since 2020 by Manuel Legris, to perform on the vast stage of the impressive ancient theatre. On 15 July 2023, La […]

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Rattle, Salonen, Chailly, all at the Philharmonie!

January is a fruitful month for the Philharmonie de Paris, which welcomes three of the most prominent conductors. Sir Simon Rattle opens the ball on 14 and 15 January 2023 with the London Symphony Orchestra and two fine programmes, Sibelius/Bruckner then Beethoven/Stravinsky. The Orchestre de Paris meets Esa-Pekka Salonen on 25 and 26 January for […]

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Franco Zeffirelli at La Scala

As La Scala in Milan prepares to open its new season on 7 December 2022 with Boris Godunov, the great Italian institution is first paying tribute to one of its legendary directors with an exhibition that opened on 8 November 2022. Franco Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, would have been 100 years old on 12 […]

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Riccardo will not be conducting the masked ball

Due to an illness that has prevented him from taking part in rehearsals, Maestro Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, will not be conducting the performances of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera on the prestigious Italian stage scheduled for 4 to 22 May 2022. In the pit, Nicola Luisotti and Giampaolo […]

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Adrienne sees double

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan is once again performing the Italian repertoire with Adriana Lecouvreur, a masterpiece by Francesco Cilea. The greatest sopranos have performed in the role, such as Maria Agresta and Anna Netrebko now, who will alternate between 4 and 19 March 2022. The lovers of his ladies Freddie De Tommaso and […]

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Asmik Grigorian immortalised

While her very first solo recording (of Rachmaninov’s songs with pianist Lukas Geniušas) is to be released on 25 March 2022, Asmik Grigorian already has numerous recording projects with the Alpha Classics label, such as Shostakovich’s 14th with Matthias Goerne and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, both works with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted […]