Time flies! And since last Thursday, it has been marking the milestones of an exceptional career. Roberto Bolle has just celebrated his 50th birthday, with more than 33 of those years spent on the stage of La Scala di Milano. A dancer of international stature, he quickly established himself among the great figures of ballet. […]
From March 29 to April 9, 2025, laughter will replace tears at Teatro alla Scala with L’Opera seria, commedia per musica by Florian Leopold Gassmann. This three-act opera is a hilarious parody of the 18th-century operatic world, gleefully mocking the behavior of all those involved through countless misunderstandings. The greed of producers, the pretentiousness of […]
The curse has struck again on the opera whose name superstitious Italians never utter. Even though it remains the highlight of the international season, Verdi’s La forza del destino, which opens La Scala in Milan on December 7, 2024, has just lost one of its headliners. Jonas Kaufmann, the celebrated tenor, has announced that family […]
The next spectators seated in one of the chairs at La Scala in Milan, the temple of opera, will undoubtedly notice a significant change. The seatbacks have been upgraded to provide subtitles, no longer in just two languages but now in five! Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish are now available, allowing music lovers to […]
Carlo Vistoli, one of the few Italian countertenors, has just been recognized by the San Francisco Opera by winning the 2024 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition. After recently winning the “Abbiati” Prize from the Italian music critics, this is another accolade for Vistoli, who made his San Francisco debut in the […]
Even though every year, music lovers around the world eagerly await the date of December 7th, the official opening of its season, the famous Teatro alla Scala in Milan is not closed. From September 4th to 18th, 2024, it is the young singers of its prestigious academy who will be on stage to defend the […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
