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[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante

29 March 2023 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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The current run of Les contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala sees soprano Eleonora Buratto making her debut as Antonia. After the opening night, I asked her how she was settling into her new role. It's a … [Read more...] about [Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante

Ferruccio Furlanetto awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal

27 September 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Ferruccio Furlanetto presented with the San Francisco Opera Medal by General Director Matthew Shilvock following Eugene Onegin on September 25, 2022. Photo by Stefan Cohen, San Francisco Opera

Immediately following the opening performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on 25 September, Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, who sang the role of Prince Gremin, was presented with the San … [Read more...] about Ferruccio Furlanetto awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal

[Interview] Luciano Pavarotti’s daughter talks about life with the King of the High Cs

15 August 2022 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Luciano Pavarotti Recital 1988

Cristina Pavarotti, 58, is Luciano Pavarotti’s second child, and will be in Los Angeles on 24 August for the positioning her father’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the accompanying … [Read more...] about [Interview] Luciano Pavarotti’s daughter talks about life with the King of the High Cs

Pavarotti to have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

31 July 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Luciano Pavarotti - photo Primo Gnani, 1987

There will be a new Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007 at 71. The laying ceremony will be on 24 August 2022 at 11.30 am (Los Angeles time) at 7065 Hollywood … [Read more...] about Pavarotti to have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Mirella Freni dies at 84

9 February 2020 by Gramilano 1 Comment

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 … [Read more...] about Mirella Freni dies at 84

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

7 February 2020 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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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 … [Read more...] about Conductor Nello Santi – who conducted 401 performances at The Met – has died at 88

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

13 April 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Quartet, from left, Cochi Ponzoni, Erica Blanc, Giuseppe Pambieri, and Paola Quattrini, photo by Massimiliano Fusco

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 … [Read more...] about The play Quartet and the Giuseppe Verdi Rest Home, both in Milan

Luciano Pavarotti, 10 years after his death, celebrated in exclusive photos from the La Scala archives

6 September 2017 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Recital in 1983

Luciano Pavarotti died ten years ago today, on 6 September 2007. Teatro alla Scala continually welcomed the great tenor to its stage for almost three decades, from 1965 until 1992. At the Milanese … [Read more...] about Luciano Pavarotti, 10 years after his death, celebrated in exclusive photos from the La Scala archives

Renata Scotto on her childhood, her musical beginnings and her debut in Traviata at 18

13 August 2017 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Renata Scotto with the Mayor, Alessandro Oddo   photo by Alessandro Gimelli

Renata Scotto has been made an honorary citizen of Tovo San Giacomo, a small town near the Ligurian coast, in the Province of Savona — just a few kilometres from where I happen to be writing this … [Read more...] about Renata Scotto on her childhood, her musical beginnings and her debut in Traviata at 18

Renata Scotto vs Maria Callas – the 1970 fight at La Scala

28 November 2015 by Gramilano 10 Comments

Renata Scotto with Maria Callas

When Renata Scotto made her début in I vespri siciliani at La Scala to open the theatre’s season on 7 December 1970, one of the singers that she admired the most was in the theatre. Maria Callas had … [Read more...] about Renata Scotto vs Maria Callas – the 1970 fight at La Scala

Renata Scotto on Maria Callas: greater than all of us

6 December 2013 by Gramilano 7 Comments

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"Listen to me, everyone speak about Callas. But I know Callas. I know Callas before she was Callas. She was fat and she had this vociaccia — you know what a vociaccia is? You go kill a cat and record … [Read more...] about Renata Scotto on Maria Callas: greater than all of us

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GRAHAM SPICER

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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