Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Anna A.

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano / Teatro alla Scala) A major project with deeply feminine roots took place at Teatro alla Scala with the world premiere of “Anna A.,” a commission that, for the first time in the theater’s history, was entrusted to a female composer. The honor went to none other than Silvia Colasanti, currently the most frequently performed living {…}

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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Rigoletto

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(Credit: Ph. Brescia e Amisano) After the recurrent “Rigoletto” production by Gilbert Deflo, which has been revived more than ten times since its debut in 1994, the Teatro alla Scala commissioned Mario Martone in 2022 to create a new staging of Verdi’s classic. The result was a contemporary and technologically rich interpretation of the opera, and the theater decided to {…}

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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: L’opera seria

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(Photo credit: Brescia and Amisano) “I should reproach myself even more if I were to allow myself to be credited with the initiative for the new genre of Italian opera … it is to my librettist Calzabigi that the main credit goes …” Gluck, letter of 1775 Let us speak directly of the opera at hand, recently brought to the {…}

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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Tosca (2019 Revival)

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano) It was December 7, 2019, when the curtain of Teatro alla Scala rose before the select audience that annually attends the Sant’Ambroeus performance, better known among opera lovers as “La prima della Scala,” the event that inaugurates the new season of the prestigious Italian theater. To open the 2019-20 season—unaware that it would soon be brutally {…}

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Festival Verdi & Verdi Off Set To Present Musical Performances in Albania

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Il Festival Verdi e Verdi Off will team up with the Teatro Nazionale dell’Opera e del Balletto di Albania for a production of “Un Ballo in Maschera.” The festival, which will take place between May 31 and June 4, will showcase a production of “Un ballo in maschera” in a historic production from 1913 by Giuseppe Carmignani. The Verdi Off {…}

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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Anna A.

Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Rigoletto

Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: L’opera seria

Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Tosca (2019 Revival)

Festival Verdi & Verdi Off Set To Present Musical Performances in Albania