On Wednesday June 20, 2012, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the tenth appointment of the “Prima delle prime” public talks will be dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (libretto by Giovanni Ruffini e Gaetano Donizetti). On this occasion, professor of Melodrama history and Musical philology at the University of Milan Claudio […]
On the eve of the “Prima delle prime” conference dedicated to Jules Massenet’s Manon, we asked Laura Cosso, guest speaker at tomorrow’s conference, to draw an introductive picture of the opera. Massenet’s Manon is an 1884 adaptation from a novel by French writer abbé Prévost, which in 1893 would have inspired also Giacomo Puccini’s Manon […]
On Wednesday June 13, 2012, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the ninth appointment of the “Prima delle prime” public talks will be dedicated to Jules Massenet’s Manon. On this occasion, musicologist and Stage performance professor at the Conservatorio di Milano Laura Cosso will give a lecture titled “Le malìe […]
If you missed our “Prima delle prime” conference held on May 30, 2012 at La Scala’s boxes foyer, you can now listen to the audio recording of the lecture “Tragedia romantica con ricatto”, in which Italian music historian Antonio Rostagno spoke about Giuseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller. For the audio content, see below on this page. Key transition opera between the […]
It has just been defined an exemplary show. Performed at La Scalasince May 19, Peter Grimes is a strong expression of the theatre’s cultural policy, which puts its focus on less known twentieth-century masterpieces, presenting new ways to tell both the traditional opera and the contemporary one. With a direction which avoids excesses and indulgence, […]
