Remembering Luciano Berio, in the anniversary of his birth

27 October 2012

We chose a set of three videos to remember Luciano Berio, whose birth anniversary has been celebrated a few days ago, on the 24th October. Through this set you can read some of the many faces of this Twentieth-century Italian Maestro. Both an experimenter and a populizer, Berio knew well, as Angelo Foletto argued in […]

Baldassare Galuppi: the sacred and the profane in 18th-century Venice

19 October 2012

“Grace, clearness and good modulation”. That’s how Baldassare Galuppi once described his idea of well-made music. It is a definition we are glad to remember in these days of October, as we are celebrating the anniversary of one of the most preeminent musical personalities of 18th-century Italy. Harpsichordist and prolific composer, Galuppi was born in 1706 […]

“Prima delle prime” podcast: Don Pasquale, 20 June 2012

29 June 2012

If you missed our “Prima delle prime” conference held on June 20, 2012 at La Scala’s boxes foyer, you can now listen to the audio recording of the lecture “La convivenza tra comico e patetico”, in which Italian professor of Melodrama history and Musical philology at the University of Milan Claudio Toscani speaks about Gaetano Donizetti’s  Don Pasquale. For the audio content, see below […]

“Prima delle prime” podcast: Manon, 13 June 2012

25 June 2012

If you missed our “Prima delle prime” conference held on June 13, 2012 at La Scala’s boxes foyer, you can now listen to the audio recording of the lecture “Le malie della femme fatale”, in which Italian musicologist and Stage performance professor Laura Cosso speaks about Jules Massenet’s Manon. For the audio content, see below on this page. From the libertine novel of the Abbé […]