Diana Damrau

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    Bartoli, Grigolo, Damrau et al will sing live from their homes tonight

    ByGramilano

    A concert on 1 May at 9 pm (21.00 CEST – 15.00 EDT – 20.00 BST), organised by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s new intendant Alexander Pereira, will feature Cecilia Bartoli, Vittorio Grigolo, Mikhail Petrenko, Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tézier, Francesco Meli, Lisette Oropesa, Luca Salsi, Thomas Hampson, Krassimira Stoyanova, Michele Pertusi, Eva Mei, Leo Nucci, Sonya Yoncheva, Fabio Sartori, and Saioa Hernández, among others yet to be announced.

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    La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2019 – 2020

    ByGramilano

    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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    La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2017 – 2018

    ByGramilano

    A pleasing new season at La Scala seems to tick all the right boxes, with half the programming dedicated to the Italian repertoire, some rarities, important international operas and a world premiere. The season will also mark the 40th Anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s collaboration with the theatre, and the 95th birthday of Franco Zeffirelli. The…

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    The Royal Opera and Ballet in Cinema 2015-2016

    ByGramilano

    Romeo and Juliet, 22 September at 7.15pm The Royal Ballet By Kenneth MacMillan Music: Sergey Prokofiev Le nozze di Figaro, 5 October at 6.45pm The Royal Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dir: David McVicar Cond: Ivor Bolton Cast includes Erwin Schrott and Anita Hartig Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux /…

  • 600% bounses for La Scala’s musicians but Chailly isn’t happy

    ByGramilano

    You may have already read about the refusal of some La Scala workers to perform Turandot on 1 May being that it is the International Workers’ Day. However, it is also the opening day of the Milan Expo, and I doubt that the hotels, restaurants, taxis and other services will be refusing to work. The situation was resolved…

  • La Scala complete Symphonic and Recital programme: 2014 — 2015

    ByGramilano

      Symphonic Programme 29, 30 September, 1 October 2014 Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala Conductor: Zubin Mehta Franz Joseph Haydn Die Schöpfung Hob. XXI:2 Oratorio Julia Kleiter, soprano Peter Sonn, tenor Thomas E. Bauer, bass – baritone Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni   12, 14, 15 November 2014 Filarmonica della Scala Conductor and soloist: Daniel Barenboim Wolfgang Amadeus…

  • La Scala complete Opera casts and dates: 2014 – 2015

    ByGramilano

    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…

  • Being under 30 with Ratmansky at La Scala

    ByGramilano

    The first audience to witness Alexei Ratmansky‘s new ballet consisted entirely of ‘Under 30s‘, La Scala‘s scheme to attract a new and younger audience. Tickets cost just €10, and the two opening productions of the season – La Traviata and Serata Ratmansky – are previewed three days before the official opening. Not bad value for…

  • La Scala, 7 December 2013: La Traviata

    ByGramilano

    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…

  • La Traviata at La Scala – first glimpses

    ByGramilano

    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…

  • The curse of the La Scala recital series? Barenboim bows out

    ByGramilano

    Ok, the headline is a bit over the top, but the vocal recitals at La Scala have been having a spot of bad luck recently, especially seeing that there are only seven recitals each season. Just over a year ago Daniela Barcellona gave a concert postponed from January because of a ‘sudden illness’.  Diana Damrau, having moved a recital to 21…

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    Diana Damrau’s new Strauss leider CD will be released mid-January

    ByGramilano

    Soprano Diana Damrau, described by The Sunday Times as “the most dazzling star to have emerged from Germany in recent years” was born in Bavaria. The region’s capital, Munich, was the birthplace of Richard Strauss, and in March 2009 a programme of the composer’s songs was presented at the city’s Gasteig Philharmonie, with Damrau accompanied by the Munich…

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