Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor, a dramatic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, was supposed to open the 2020/21 Teatro alla Scala season but, due to the pandemic, was rescheduled. These days it is finally in the theatre until 5 May, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, who has performed the original version in its entirety. The opera, composed between [...]
Les contes de Hoffmann
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), staged at the Teatro alla Scala, is the unfinished opera by French composer Jacques Offenbach, beautifully directed by Davide Livermore and conducted by Frédéric Chaslin. The opera is based on a series of short stories by the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. The opera was composed between 1879 and 1880 and debuted [...]
LA BOHEME AT THE TEATRO ALLA SCALA TO REMEMBER FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
To commemorate the centenary of Franco Zeffirelli's birth, the Teatro alla Scala presents: La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, the direction and sets are by the Maestro, but regenerated by Marco Gandini. The costumes are the original ones by Piero Tosi revamped by Anna Biagiotti, with Korean Eun Sun Kim conducting. The world premiere of [...]
Le Corsaire by Manuel Legris at La Scala Theatre
Le Corsaire arrives for the first time at La Scala in Manuel Legris' reinterpretation, the music is mainly by Adolphe Adam conducted by Valery Ovsyanikov, and the sets and costumes by Luisa Spinatelli are splendid. Le Corsaire is a true spectacle within a spectacle. A story of pirates and kidnapping that is intense, full of technique, [...].
