Nabucco

Google Arts & Culture puts thousands of images and documents from La Scala’s archive online

8 May 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative with the tech giant working alongside cultural institutions and artists around the world to bring some of the world’s art and culture online so that it can be accessible to anyone, anywhere.

La Scala Opera House has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to bring online the largest opera house archive, with images from operas, ballets and concerts, with designs, and scores. Thanks to Google’s Street View – which usually helps you to spy on the new house your friend has bought or find your way around a city centre to find a particular pub – you can wander around La Scala’s auditorium, foyers, stage and corridors.

Opera singers against the coronavirus – how one singer is lifting spirits in Milan

19 March 2020 by gramilano 5 Comments

[VIDEO] Armando Ariostini, the baritone who works tirelessly for Casa Verdi, each day he performs for his neighbours kept in their homes by the coronavirus.

Conductor Nello Santi – who conducted 401 performances at The Met – has died at 88

7 February 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The conductor Nello Santi has died at 88. He last worked at La Scala in November 2017, when he was 86, conducting Nabucco. He was born in 1931 in Adria in the Veneto region. He was the director of Zurich Opera from 1958 to 1969. In 1960, Santi conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker for Don Carlo […]

The play Quartet and the Giuseppe Verdi Rest Home, both in Milan

13 April 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

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 […]

Gregory Reinhart answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition

19 August 2017 by gramilano 2 Comments

Q&A When did you start singing? As a child in Upstate New York, every Sunday I was taken to Mass. I loved hearing the songs in Latin, and hearing the choir. I wanted so badly to sing along, but was told by the organist I’d have to wait until my voice changed! At school I […]

Leo Nucci on the Rome Opera crisis: closure could be a good opportunity

27 July 2014 by gramilano Leave a Comment

I was born a labourer, before I was a singer I was a blacksmith and a mechanic. My father was a miner. I worked in the chorus. Obviously I understand the trade unions’ side. But this is another story altogether. Leo Nucci is commenting on the continuous threats by the unions in Rome, resulting in performances […]

Muti goes against doctors orders and conducts Nabucco in Rome

13 March 2011 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Last night, only a month after being fitted with a pacemaker and having facial sugery after a fall, Riccardo Muti went against the wishes of his Chicago doctors and conducted Nabucco at the Rome Opera. The performance is one of many celebrations during the next week to celebrate the unification of Italy 150 years ago. […]

Muti’s triumph with Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon: and his first “encore” in 25 years

4 December 2010 by gramilano Leave a Comment

“Stay with us!” yelled an enthusiastic supporter during the applause at the opening of Moïse et Pharaon in Rome. Riccardo Muti has been toying with the idea of becoming the musical director of the Rome Opera for some months now, but has now clarified his position: I can’t accept a post if I’m unable to guarantee […]