Dua Lipa has admitted that her favorite theater in Italy is the Teatro alla Scala. In a social media interview for Vogue Italia, the Grammy Award-winning pop star said that her favorite theater was the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. However, she did admit she had not attended a performance yet. She said, “the only reason I am saying it {…}
On Sept. 1, all content on the Teatro alla Scala’s LaScalaTV will be available for free upon registration. Thanks to the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, the platform is moving from a paid offering to a free service. The Teatro alla Scala Foundation explains that making the content available to everyone is part of a strategy to enhance and share its {…}
“Lucia di Lammermoor” remains one of the supreme achievements of Romantic opera, capable of transforming inner conflict into pure musical expression. Premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1835, Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece transcends the conventional sentimental tragedy to offer one of the most complex female psychological portraits of the nineteenth century. Based on Walter Scott’s The Bride {…}
(Photo: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) There are works that endure through time because they contain questions that no era has ever been able to answer completely. “Carmen” is one of them. Since its controversial Paris premiere in 1875, when the Opéra-Comique witnessed an audience bewildered by a story centered on a woman who rejected the social and {…}
Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week the Teatro alla Scala releases two major productions from two different seasons featuring some of the biggest stars. Lucia di Lammermoor C Major Entertainment releases Donizetti’s masterpiece from spring 2023. Recorded at the Teatro alla Scala, the opera features Lisette Oropesa, Juan {…}
(Photo: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) At a time when vocal recitals seem to have lost some of the prominence they enjoyed throughout much of the twentieth century, it is particularly significant that two artists at the height of their careers should choose to celebrate a decade of collaboration through a format that demands complete artistic exposure. Such {…}
Following the announcement that the Teatro alla Scala was increasing prices of more than 30 per cent, protests erupted. The Times of London is reporting that during a performance of “Carmen” last week, multicolored leaflets were thrown down onto the stalls denouncing the move as one that would “burden the theatre’s traditional audience” and demanding it be reversed. According to {…}
The Teatro alla Scala has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Myung–Whun Chung conducts Verdi’s “Otello” for opening night in a production by Damiano Michieletto. The cast will include Brian Jagde, Luca Salsi, and Eleonora Buratto accompanied by Juan Francisco Gatell and Szilvia Vörös. A second cast will star Arsen Soghomonyan, Roberto Frontali and Roberta Mantegna. Performance Dates: Dec. 7, 2026-Jan. 5, 2027 Bizet’s {…}
(Photo Credit: Michele Monasta) On May 26 at the Teatro alla Scala, Marta Torbidoni performed the role of Abigaille replacing the originally announced Anna Netrebko. According to reports, Superintendent Fortunato Ortombina took the stage before the performance to announce that Netrebko would not be able to perform due to a travel mishap. Per reports the audience was unhappy with the {…}
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus / La Scala) “Opera sings too much” provocatively declared a barely thirty-year-old Claude Debussy shortly before revolutionizing the concept of lyric theater in France with what would become his only operatic work: “Pelléas et Mélisande.” A work built upon silences, allusions, and a circular sense of time: a fable situated outside reality. The result was not what {…}
Marta Torbidoni will sing the role of Abigaille in the Teatro alla Scala’s new production of “Nabucco.” The soprano will replace the originally announced Russian soprano Inara Kozlavskaya for the June 4, 6, and 9, 2026 performances. Torbidoni has performed at the Teatro alla Scala in productions of “Norma” and has also appeared at such theatres and concert halls as {…}