Interview: Rosalind Plowright looks back on her 50-year career
Rosalind Plowright looks back at her 50-year career with Paul Arrowsmith before a run as Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera at Opera Holland Park from 25 July.
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Ekaterina Bakanova answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Russian soprano Ekaterina Bakanova answers questions about her life and loves on the day of her debut as the Countess, after many Susannas, in The Marriage of Figaro.
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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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Interview: Angela Gheorghiu, betrayed by Pappano and Kaufmann, and still loving Alagna
Angela Gheorghiu never hides her true thoughts… here she talks about Callas, Pappano, Kaufmann, Alagna’s jealousy and her present happiness.
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Italian choreographer Amedeo Amodio receives a lifetime achievement award at the Italian Parliament
The career of dancer and choreographer Amedeo Amodio was celebrated on 2 July in the Chamber of Deputies – the lower house of the Italian Parliament.
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Eleonora Buratto’s first solo album “Indomita” reflects the singer and her heroines
Eleonora Buratto’s first solo album, Indomita, has been released featuring a selection of works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.
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Interview: Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra on Mariposa – a Queer Tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra talks to Paul Arrowsmith ahead of the UK tour of Mariposa – “Adapting opera into non-verbal dance was an exciting, but certainly difficult.”
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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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Maria Callas at 100 – Milan mounts 2 months of events to celebrate
From 1 November to 31 December 2023, Milan will dedicate a programme of events for Callas 100, to mark the centenary of Maria Callas’ birth on 2 December.
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[Interview] Soprano Benedetta Torre – La Scala’s newest Susanna
Interview with soprano Benedetta Torre on the eve of the opening night at La Scala when she will sing Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
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A 131-CD collection to celebrate Maria Callas’ 100th birthday
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Maria Callas, Warner Classics will release La Divina: Maria Callas in all her roles on 22 September 2023.
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The Florence opera house to sell its vast archive to avoid closure
The Maggio Musicale Theatre in Florence to sell off vast archive to raise €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt left behind after Alexander Pereira resigned.
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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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The second edition of the Carla Fracci gala arrives at La Scala
After the resounding success of the Gala Carla Fracci now, two years after her death, comes the second edition of what will be an annual gala in her honour.
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[Interview] Riccardo Frizza conducts the Verdi Requiem on the 150th anniversary of Manzoni’s death
In Milan’s Duomo on 22 May, Riccardo Frizza will conduct Verdi’s Requiem, exactly 150 years after Manzoni’s death, and 151 years after Verdi conducted the premiere.
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[Interview] Conductor Henrik Nánási – immersing himself in the music
Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási talks about music, composers, a travelling life, musical roots and Rusalka. And tennis.
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[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante
While Eleonora Buratto is singing in Les contes d’Hoffmann in Milan, I talked to her about the opera, her perfume, her charity work, and New Year’s fizz.
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Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in biopic
Angelina Jolie will play Maria Callas in a film by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín. The biopic will focus on Callas’s final days in 1970s Paris.
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[Review] The Met’s Medea – a tour de force performance from Radvanovsky
Jonathan Gray sees Sondra Radvanovsky’s “exciting, insightful, chilling, and terrifying” performance in the Met’s intelligent new production of Medea.
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La Scala’s costume department: I could take one of Callas’s costumes home
La Scala’s costume collection includes, for example, 25 costumes designed for Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi. However, there is little to protect them.
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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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Luciana Novaro, Italian ballerina who danced with Massine and Lifar, dies at 98
Luciana Novaro, a hugely important figure in Italian ballet, died on 26 May at 98. She was a principal dancer at La Scala, its director, and a choreographer.
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Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig has died at 93
The German opera singer Christa Ludwig, died on Saturday 24 April at the age of 93 in Klosterneuburg, Austria, where she lived.
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In Memoriam 2020: Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors
A list of Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors who have left us during 2020.
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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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Hui He answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
When did you start singing? I always loved to sing since I was a child. I sang on every occasion, also during public events at school, where my maths teacher heard me and advised me to take singing lesson with her neighbour who was a voice teacher. He listened me, and he told me that…
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Video: Carla Fracci and Roberto Bolle dance Le Spectre de la rose, 1998
Shortly before Carla Fracci‘s 62nd birthday, she and 23-year-old Roberto Bolle went to Toyko for the 14th Toyko Summer Music Festival dedicated to Diaghilev and 20th Century Ballet. The young star had been promoted to principal dancer at La Scala in 1996 and had already embarked on an international freelance career. On 9 and 10…
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The play Quartet and the Giuseppe Verdi Rest Home, both in Milan
The Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (Rest Home for Musicians) in Milan is known simply as Casa Verdi (The Verdi Home) and, although Giuseppe Verdi never lived there, his body is buried there, together with that of his wife, Giuseppina Strepponi (the first Abigaille in the premiere of the composer’s Nabucco at La Scala in…
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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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