A pleasing new season at La Scala seems to tick all the right boxes, with half the programming dedicated to the Italian repertoire, some rarities, important international operas and a world premiere. The season will also mark the 40th Anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s collaboration with the theatre, and the 95th birthday of Franco Zeffirelli. The […]
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Alexander Pereira brings Al Gore and an 88-year-old Hungarian to La Scala
The next season at La Scala will see not only new faces in the offices and in the pit – Sovrintendente Alexander Pereira and Musical Director Riccardo Chailly – but also a new direction in the programming with the world première of C02 by Giorgio Battistelli, an Italian composer but with an international reputation, based […]
Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors’ Edition
Q&A When did you first go to the theatre? To see Rigoletto at the Teatro Comunale in Florence on 10 October 1939 for my tenth birthday, with Gino Bechi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Lina Aimaro and the young Giulietta Simionato as Madelena. Why did you want to work in the theatre? In Florence we give out presents for the Epiphany. When I was six […]
As Peter Brook leaves Milan to continue his ‘farewell tour’ he reflects on his friend Samuel Beckett
“I knew Beckett, and I found him a man of enormous humanity and humor and a really good companion and friend. Nothing was more enjoyable than to be with him, and of course, when I said this at the time, people couldn’t believe it. They thought he was a sort of austere and rather forbidding, […]
