New videos on LaScalaTv, La Scala’s free streaming platform
LaScalaTv, now free, adds L’elisir d’amore, a Rustioni-conducted concert and Chailly’s Gurre-Lieder as La Scala’s season resumes.
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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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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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Preview: Riccardo Chailly conducts Nabucodonosor, opening tonight at La Scala
Verdi’s Nabucodonosor opens tonight at La Scala. Riccardo Chailly’s last opera – his tenth Verdi title at the theatre – and the 210th performance of Nabucco.
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Milan celebrates 80th Anniversary of La Scala’s reopening after devastating World War II bombing
World War II bombing by allied forces destroyed much of La Scala. It was rebuilt in three years and reopened with Toscanini conducting on 11 May 1946.
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Giorgio Armani at La Scala exhibition opens and the opening of La Scala’s 2025/2026 Ballet Season is dedicated to the designer
La Scala dedicates the opening of its ballet season to Giorgio Armani, and an exhibition of photos titled ‘Giorgio Armani at La Scala’ will be on display.
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Riccardo Chailly taken to hospital and the performance suspended at La Scala
After the opening of La Scala’s season with Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the second performance was suspended after Riccardo Chailly fell ill.
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Interview: Riccardo Chailly and director Vasily Barkhatov on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk which opens La Scala’s opera season
On the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death, La Scala opens its opera Season with his masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
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The Force of Destiny – a documentary following preparations for opening night at La Scala
La Scala: The Force of Destiny follows the preparations for Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, which opened La Scala’s 2024 season on 7 December.
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La Scala presents its Opera Season 2025-2026
La Scala’s Opera Season 2025-2026 opens with Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Turandot to celebrate the centenary of the premiere La Scala.
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Myung-Whun Chung to be new Music Director at La Scala
Myung-Whun Chung will be the successor of Riccardo Chailly as Music Director of Teatro alla Scala.
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Elisabetta Riva becomes new CEO of Bologna’s opera house
Elisabetta Riva will be the new Superintendent of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, with effect from 23 April 2025.
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La Scala announces its 2024-2025 Opera Season
Full details – cast, creative team, conductor – of the 14 operas in La Scala’s 2024-2025 opera season, which opens with La forza del destino.
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Maurizio Pollini: 1942-2024 – La Scala mourns one of its most important artists
La Scala’s tribute to pianist Maurizio Pollini who has died at 82. From 1958 to his last recital in February 2023, Pollini performed at La Scala 168 times.
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Premiere of Don Carlo at La Scala – the numbers, the announcements, the protestations, and the photos
The premiere of Don Carlo at La Scala saw two curtain announcements, some boos, protests at the presence of some politicians, and lots of applause.
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LaScalaTv ‘live from Milan’ is now available on subscription
On sale from today are one-month or one-year subscriptions to access the content of the theatre’s streaming platform, LaScalaTv, from 1 January 2024.
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A new 17-floor tower opens behind La Scala with rehearsal rooms and offices
La Scala opens 11 floors of offices, an additional rehearsal room for the ballet company, and a new area for unloading and the pre-assembly of sets backstage.
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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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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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Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov on Boris Godunov, his 89th performance at La Scala
Interview with Ildar Abdrazakov who will be Boris Godunov for the opening of Milan’s opera season on 7 December 2022.
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Riccardo Chailly stops orchestra and chorus after mobile phone rings
Yesterday evening, during a concert at La Scala, Riccardo Chailly stopped the entire orchestra and chorus after a phone rang.
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Anna Netrebko cancels Adriana Lecouvreur performances at La Scala
Anna Netrebko has said that she will not be coming to Milan for performances of Adriana Lecouvreur from 9 March, but not for health reasons.
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La Scala’s Macbeth – comments and photo album
A gallery of images of Macbeth, which opened the opera season at La Scala last night, 7 December, attended by Italy’s President.
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Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy ruffles La Scala’s feathers
On the day that La Scala opened its doors for its season opener, Macbeth, the Prada Foundation in Milan welcomed Riccardo Muti for a series of masterclasses.
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La Scala 2021-2022 Opera Season and new philosophy
La Scala 2021-2022 Opera Season will present 13 opera productions, nine are new productions. Plus recycling, women’s equality and lower prices.
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Sparks fly at La Scala between conductors Muti and Chailly
Riccardo vs Riccardo. At the end of last night’s concert, Muti told his successor to get lost, though with more colourful language.
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Concert to mark 75th anniversary of La Scala’s reopening [streaming]
Yesterday La Scala reopened its doors to the public with a concert, available from today: the 75th anniversary of Toscanini’s reopening concert.
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Riccardo Chailly confirmed as La Scala’s Musical Director until 2025
La Scala’s Board of Directors met today has agreed to extend Riccardo Chailly’s engagement as Music Director until 2025.
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Riccardo Chailly and Irina Brook bring Brecht and Weill back to La Scala
On March 18 at 8 pm CET, Riccardo Chailly conducts Die sieben Tosdsünden (“The Seven Deadly Sins”) and Mahagonny Songspiel in a live-streamed performance from La Scala.
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