Elisabetta Riva becomes new CEO of Bologna’s opera house
Elisabetta Riva will be the new Superintendent of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, with effect from 23 April 2025.
Daniele Gatti
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Giorgio Strehler’s famous production of Falstaff returns to La Scala and will be live streamed
1980’s Falstaff by director Giorgio Strehler and designer Ezio Frigerio, returns to La Scala starring Ambrogio Maestri and conducted by Daniele Gatti.
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La Scala announces its 2024-2025 Opera Season
Full details – cast, creative team, conductor – of the 14 operas in La Scala’s 2024-2025 opera season, which opens with La forza del destino.
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For Carlo Fuortes it’s been quite a week – appointed head of Florence’s opera house and given a prison sentence
Carlo Fuortes – formerly head of Rome Opera – was nominated as the new Intendent of Florence’s opera house days before being given a prison sentence.
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LaScalaTv ‘live from Milan’ is now available on subscription
On sale from today are one-month or one-year subscriptions to access the content of the theatre’s streaming platform, LaScalaTv, from 1 January 2024.
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La Scala Opera Season 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Opera Season of the Teatro alla Scala will present 14 productions, 10 of which are new, with a predominantly Italian repertoire.
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Rome Opera House will stream a free concert conducted by Michele Mariotti tonight
Tonight, at 7 pm (19.00 CET), the Rome Opera House will stream a concert conducted by Michele Mariotti on its YouTube channel free of charge.
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La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2019 – 2020
After Riccardo Chailly opens the season with Tosca, continuing the cycle of works by Puccini, he will conduct his first Strauss opera, as well as the complete Beethoven symphonies. Zubin Mehta will conduct two Verdi operas as well as Luigi Nonno’s Intolleranza which will be performed at La Scala for the first time. Handel’s Semele…
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Daniele Gatti is appointed new Musical Director of Rome Opera
General Manager of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Carlo Fuortes, has named Maestro Daniele Gatti as the opera house’s new Musical Director, with a three-year tenure, until 31 December 2021. The orchestra director’s first time working at the theatre at the inauguration of the 2016-2017 Season with Tristan und Isolde. He then returned to the podium…
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Franco Vassallo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? When I was 11 to a disc of Rigoletto with Gobbi, Callas and Di Stefano; a blanket on my shoulder and an umbrella served as my cloak and sword! Above all I loved “La donna è mobile” and the role of the Duke of Mantua; my voice…
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La Scala Concert Season 2017 – 2018
Opera and Recital Season 2017 – 2018 Ballet Season 2017 – 2018 Symphonic 14, 16, 19 October 2017 Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala Daniele Gatti Miah Persson, soprano; Christianne Stotijn, contralto Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection Symphony” 10, 12, 15 November 2017 Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala Riccardo Chailly Maria…
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La Scala Opera Season 2016-2017 – full dates and casts
Ballet Season 2016-2017 Recital and Concert Season 2016-2017 The new season opens with another step along the path of Riccardo Chailly‘s Puccini Project, Madama Butterfly, which will be directed by Alvis Hermanis (Die Soldaten and I due Foscari at La Scala) with Maria José Siri as Butterfly and Bryan Hymel as Pinkerton. It will use the…
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Giovanna d’Arco – the background of La Scala’s latest production
On 7 December 2015, La Scala’s 2015-2016 Season opens with Giuseppe Verdi‘s Giovanna d’Arco, which had its premiere at La Scala on 15 February 1845, but hasn’t been staged at the Milanese theatre since 1865. Bringing back this opera after 150 years is part of the artistic and cultural line that will link the following…
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Massimo Cavalletti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? I began singing when I was six years old in the choir at Saint Anne’s church in Lucca, where I was born. I started singing opera when I was twenty-one. Why did you start singing? I began singing because as soon as I discovered my voice it…
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Barbara Frittoli answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? From what I remember I’ve always sung: when I was seven I had emergency surgery for peritonitis and I sang throughout the operation. Why did you start singing? When I was nine I was accepted at the Milan Conservatory to study piano; choral singing was, and is,…
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La Scala complete Opera casts and dates: 2014 – 2015
4 December (Preview for young people), 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23 December 2014 Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Deborah Warner Sets and costumes: Chloe Obolensky Cast Anja Kampe, Mojca Erdmann, Klaus Florian Vogt, Falk Struckmann, PeterMattei, Kwangchul Youn, Florian Hoffmann Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala New production Teatro…
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Storm as La Scala’s new boss buys seven of his own Salzburg productions for Milan
The new sovrintendente at La Scala, Alexander Pereira, has bought for his first season with the Milanese theatre, seven productions from the Salzburg Festival, where he is currently playing out his last season as its director. The affair, first reported in the Austrian press, came as a surprise to Milan‘s Mayor, Giuliano Pisapia, who is Chairman on the…
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Ambrogio Maestri answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
versione in italiano Q&A When did you start singing? When I was 9. Why did you start singing? I was studying piano, and the transition was natural. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Mario Del Monaco. Which singer do you most admire? All those who have managed their voices well and had…
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Damrau, Armani, Bolle, Zeffirelli, Fracci et al, comment on La Scala’s Traviata
Diana Damrau (soprano) This evening I feel like Violetta: it’s a special occasion, and I’ve never felt this way on a stage before and the success hasn’t quite sunk in yet, but I’m happy and proud. I did everything I possibly could. I’ve never sung a Traviata here, or for the opening of the season, and even…
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La Scala, 7 December 2013: La Traviata
La Scala‘s new production of La Traviata left Giorgio Armani, and many others, feeling ‘perplexed’. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s designs and direction got some hearty booing from the loggionisti in the gods, as did tenor Piotr Beczala and conductor Daniele Gatti, who gamely remarked afterwards that, “This is theatre at its best, when the audience can express its opinion…
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La Traviata at La Scala – first glimpses
Today’s the day, tonight’s the night. Milan celebrates Saint Ambrose (Sant’Ambrogio) and La Scala celebrates Giuseppe Verdi with a new production of La Traviata to open its 2013-2014 season. This is no ordinary opening, with tickets costing €2,000 in the stalls, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, together with the President of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, and President of…
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Luca Pisaroni answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? I started singing when I was 12/13 years old. I was a tenor then… Why did you start singing? I started singing because it felt so natural. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Luciano Pavarotti. Which singer do you most admire? Thomas Hampson for his curiosity…
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Milan and Turin’s MITO Festival is ideal for music lovers on a budget: programme 2012
More than 4000 artists will gather in Milan and Torino during September for the annual MITO Festival. It is one of the largest music festivals in the world and half of the programming is admission free. The rest of the concerts have amazingly low prices offering the perfect opportunity to get a stalls seat at…
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