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LaScalaTV Goes Free from 1 September
Teatro alla Scala’s streaming platform is dropping its paywall. From 1 September, every title in the LaScalaTV catalogue will be available for free.
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Fondo Niccolò Piccinni presents the Garda Festival 2026
The Garda Festival runs from 24 July until 1 August on or near the shores of the great Italian lake. All events are free.
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La Scala’s 2026-2027 Opera Season announced
La Scala announces its 2026-2027 Opera Season with 13 titles. It is Myung-Whun Chung’s first season as Music Director.
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La Scala in the USA – a Gala in New York, an exhibition in Washington, and a screening in Los Angeles
After visits to Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid and London, La Scala continues an international tour presenting its 2025/2026 season.
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Books: Amici della Scala celebrates Italy’s theatre designers – Luciano Damiani, Anna Anni, Gabriella Pescucci, Franca Squarciapino, Luisa Spinatelli
Amici della Scala has published an annual collection of books on La Scala’s designers for more than 20 years. The new collection features Luciano Damiani and others.
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Director Beppe Menegatti, husband of Carla Fracci, dies at 95
Italian theatre director Beppe Menegatti has died at 95. He was best known for the works with his wife, the ballerina Carla Fracci, who he married in 1964.
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One of Maria Callas’ lost costumes is found
Part of Maria Callas’ costume for Fiorilla from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1955 production of Il turco in Italia has been rediscovered at La Scala.
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Lina Sastri remembers Edoardo De Filippo – a privilege to share her magic
Neapolitan actress and singer Lina Sastri’s ‘Edoardo mio’ is a magnificent series of recollections, together with songs, of the great maestro De Filippo.
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LaScalaTv, La Scala’s new streaming platform, is now live
Competitive pricing for La Scala’s new streaming service with live performances and a catalogue of recorded operas, ballet and concerts.
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Franco Zeffirelli – The La Scala Years: an exhibition in Milan
Franco Zeffirelli was born in 1923. La Scala anticipates the celebration of his centenary with the exhibition “Franco Zeffirelli – The La Scala Years”.
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[Photo album] Carla Fracci’s Giselle in Rome with Susanna Salvi and Michele Satriano
Rome Opera Ballet’s Giselle is dedicated to Carla Fracci. The opening cast saw Susanna Salvi as Giselle and Michele Satriano as Albrecht.
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Rome Opera Season 2022-2023
The Rome Opera season has been announced with nine programmes to be staged during 2022-2023.
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Soprano Angel Blue pulls out of production at “racist” Verona Arena
“Blackface is offensive and outright racist,” said soprano Angel Blue as she announced that she was pulling out of La Traviata at the Verona Arena.
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Fourth Italian director in the history of Glyndebourne directs Alcina
Francesco Micheli is the fourth Italian director to stage a new opera production in the 88-year history of the Glyndebourne Festival.
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[Interview] Alessandra Ferri, part two: “When dance saved me”
Alessandra Ferri talks about growing up as a young dancer, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, her family, and about loving life.
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Italian theatre director Filippo Crivelli dies at 93
Italian theatre director Filippo Crivelli, who guided many artists on stage – from Maria Callas to Carla Fracci – died on 5 February 2022. He was 93.
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Positano Premia la Danza dedicated to Carla Fracci
Positano Premia la Danza has been held for almost half a century – next year marks its 50th edition. The 2021 edition was dedicted to Carla Fracci.
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La Scala records the last artists for tonight’s opening gala
With Roberto Alagna, Lisette Oropesa and Plácido Domingo, La Scala has concluded its recordings for tonight’s opening gala (5pm CET)
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Mirella Freni’s voice will open La Scala’s gala for its new season
There will not be 24, but now 25 voices in La Scala’s gala to open its 2020-2021 season A riveder le stelle (Seeing the Stars Again). On 7 December, the video introducing the evening will feature the voice of Mirella Freni singing “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur.
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[VIDEO] Massenet’s La Cigale with Carla Fracci and Paul Chalmer
A short compilation of clips from the first act of the little known ballet by Jules Massenet: La Cigale. The video was recorded in the Teatro Comunale in Treviso in 1988 and features Carla Fracci and Paul Chalmer.
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Mirella Freni dies at 84
Mirella Freni, who would have been 85 on 27 February, has died at her home in Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. She had been fighting an illness for a long while and died surrounded by friends and family. Her coffin will be placed in Modena’s Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti on the morning…
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Rolando Panerai dies at 95 – a career of tradition and adventure
With Rolando Panerai we lose a star of opera that we will not see the like of again, and many of his performances have shaped the history of La Scala‘s opera house. La Scala left these words today, reflecting on the career of the great baritone, who died on Tuesday at 95. Maybe some of…
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Alberto Testa – Italian dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer – has died at 96
Alberto Testa was a walking encyclopedia of dance, always elegantly dressed with never a hair out of place, and was very much of another time recalling Frederick Ashton with his old-school ways. Although he could be childlike and impish in his humour, he commanded great deference from those who collaborated with him and those who…
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Tenor Marcello Giordani has died at 56
Tenor Marcello Giordani died this afternoon following a heart attack – he was 56 years old. He was at his home in Augusta in the Province of Syracuse when at about 3 pm, after lunch, he felt unwell, but an hour of attempts to revive him by medical staff who arrived by ambulance and helicopter…
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Italian actress Valentina Cortese dies at 96
Valentina Cortese died this morning in her home in Milan – she was 96. The great Italian actress had been confined to a wheelchair for several years but was still receiving friends in her beautiful house in Piazza Sant’Erasmo. Her first important film role was in the 1948 Italian film Les Misérables with the young Marcello Mastroianni (she played…
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Franco Zeffirelli, at 96, on Anna Magnani and Maria Callas, his career, and old age
On 21 June Franco Zeffirelli‘s new production of La traviata opens at Verona‘s gigantic arena. He’s 96. On Anna Magnani and Maria Callas Anna Magnani and Maria Callas were two goddesses but with difficult characters. Anna wanted to see me and asked to come to dinner, as long we could be alone so that we…
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Aged 97, Franco Zeffirelli will stage a new production of Rigoletto
At 95, Franco Zeffirelli is returning to the opera house to direct a new production of Rigoletto. The opera will open in September 2020 at the Royal Opera House in Muscat when the Zeffirelli will be 97. The theatre’s director, Umberto Fanni, announced the news from Zeffirelli’s glorious villa on Rome’s via Appia Antica. His…
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Two beautiful volumes from Amici della Scala: 80 years of costumes at La Scala and the designer Coltellacci
Vittoria Crespi Morbio, the writer of an exceptional collection of books produced by the Amici della Scala, has written monographs on important artists who have collaborated with Teatro alla Scala – some celebrated, some largely forgotten. These little gems are precious in the content but lacking in their scale. However, luckily, the Friends of La…
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George Gagnidze answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? When I was 13 or 14 I started singing Georgian and Russian folk songs with my sister who was played the piano. Why did you start singing? My father used to sing in a folk chorus, but not as a professional singer, it was just a hobby…
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Maria José Siri answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? I started as a young girl… for as long as I can remember. Why did you start singing? I started by accident. I was supposed to go to my saxophone class, but I was given the wrong day and time of the lesson, and therefore I found…
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