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CD review: Diana Damrau in Meyerbeer's Grand Operas – a diva in her prime

Meyerbeer: GRAND OPERA with Diana Damrau Diana Damrau, Meyerbeer: Grand Opera This glorious new album finds Diana Damrau in sparkling, top-notch…

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Traviata opens tonight at La Scala… here's a sneak peek

The staging of La traviata is the lavish Liliana Cavani production with sets by Dante Ferretti with which Verdi's masterpiece returned to La Scala in…

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Anita Rachvelishvili at La Scala, 2016

Anita Rachvelishvili and David Aladashvili cast magic at La Scala

Anita Rachvelishvili and David Aladashvili at La Scala, 2016 It's not often that the accompanist for a recital is mentioned in…

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Daniela Dessi in Chi magazine

Maria Callas to Daniela Dessì: study to be good, not famous

Daniela Dessi in Chi magazine The popular Italian gossip magazine Chi has published a series of articles about soprano Daniela Dessì….

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Luca Pisaroni as Leporello in Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne   photo by Bill Cooper

In conversation with Luca Pisaroni: back to Milan with his La Scala debut

Luca Pisaroni – photo by Catherine Pisaroni Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni will make his house debut at La Scala in 2017…

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Daniela Dessi

Daniela Dessi dies after a short illness, at 59

Italian soprano Daniela Dessi has died after a short battle with cancer of the colon. She was just 59. She possessed one of the most beautiful…

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Lilly Jørstad

Young mezzo Lilly Jørstad wins important grant from her ‘homeland'

Lilly Jørstad — the mezzo-soprano who was strangely considered ‘unsuitable' to continue her studies at the La Scala Academy — has gone on to demonstrate what a bizarre…

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Pavarotti Nessun Dorma

Pavarotti's family tells Trump to stop using Nessun Dorma

Luciano Pavarotti's three daughters Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana, together with his widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, have requested that the Trump campaign stops using the Maestro's voice….

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Riccardo Chailly

La Scala Recital and Concert Season 2016-2017 – full dates and interpreters

The concert programme includes some of the greatest living conductors. Riccardo Chailly will be on the podium for two evenings of the Symphony Season, Verdi's…

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La Scala Opera Season 2016-2017 – full dates and casts

Ballet Season 2016-2017 Recital and Concert Season 2016-2017 Teatro alla Scala in Milan – photo by Gramilano The new season opens…

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Royal Academy of Dance acquires Dancing Times photographic archive

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World premiere of film of Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan, aka ‘Gramilano’. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. He wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

Since 2022, Gramilano is pleased to welcome guest authors: Alisa Alekseeva, Paul Arrowsmith, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Jonathan Gray, Marina Harss, Matthew Paluch, Jann Parry, Graham Watts, and Deborah Weiss.

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