On the eve of the “Prima delle prime” public talk dedicated to Luisa Miller, we asked music historian Antonio Rostagno, guest speaker at tomorrow’s conference, to draw a parallel between Luisa’s character and other Verdian female protagonists. The lecture, which is titled “Tragedia romantica con riscatto”, is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday May 30, 2012, at […]
On Wednesday May 30, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the eight appointment of “Prima delle prime” public talk will be dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller. On this occasion music historian Antonio Rostagno will speak about the Verdian opera, which will be performed at La Scala from June 6 to June […]
Starting from today, you can listen to the audio recording of our “Prima delle prime” public talks. Our first podcast is dedicated to the conference held on May 10, 2012 at La Scala’s boxes foyer, in which American musicologist Philip Gossett spoke in Italian about Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. When two great figures meet, their econcounter is always […]
In 1945 many intellectuals thought that the grand opera was dead and gone. They were proved wrong, when Benjamin Britten wrote its first work. Ahead of our next “Prima delle prime” conference, we asked our guest speaker, musicologist Philip Gossett (below), why the British composer had to undergo a sort of ostracism in the postwar […]
On Thursday May 10, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the seventh appointment of “Prima delle prime” public talk will be dedicated to Benjamin Britten‘s Peter Grimes. On this occasion professor Philip Gosset will speak about the British composer’s opera, performed at La Scala from May 19 to June 7, conducted by Robin […]
