Daniel Barenboim’s seventieth birthday – tanti auguri, Maestro!

15 November 2012

We are glad today to celebrate Daniel Barenboim’s seventieth birthday. It’s a special day for a great artist and intellectual, who held high the banner of La Scala theatre in the world. As a musician, in his extraordinary career he demonstrated how music can be not just an aesthetic medium, but also a philosophical and […]

At Palazzo Forti in Verona, a new Opera museum: AMO

12 July 2012

Looking ahead to next year’s centenary of the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, it comes as good news for the Italian cultural scene that in Verona, within the medieval Palazzo Forti, former Napoleon residence currently hosting the civic Modern Art museum, a new Opera museum has been inaugurated a few weeks ago. Pictures displayed in this […]

“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 […]

Beyond the opera buffa: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale

19 June 2012

On the eve of the “Prima delle prime” conference dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, we asked our guest speaker, professor Claudio Toscani, how this 1843’s opera goes beyond the traditional features of the “opera buffa”. The lecture, which is titled “La convivenza di comico e patetico”, is scheduled for tomorrow, 20 June 2012, at 6pm at […]