Teatro alla scala season 201415 opening getty images. His most recent work there is no why here was premiered at the opera house in bologna, italy in april 2014. Tickets and prices official ticket office how to book. Hear favorite arias in beautiful and historic churches, theaters, and palazzos. The former director of the zurich opera house and the salzburg festival saw his milan mandate tarnished in march by a controversy.
Handels semele will also receive its first staged performance at the theatre. Operatic tenor ben heppner announces his retirement from opera and concert performance, but continues as a broadcaster. Contacts teatro alla scala academy filarmonica della scala scalashop legal notice credits 20192020 season opera ballet. Officially opened in december 2011, it closed for a few months to complete the work and reopened in may 2014, at the same time as the inauguration of the new square in front of the theater. I was a regular columnist for opera now magazine and wrote for the bbc until transferring to italy. But what audiences heard and saw at the met in 2014 was a new, concentrated interpretation, free of the musical excrescences and kitschy. Concerts are organized in magical scenaries like auditorium or academies of music, a special setting for operas and classical concerts. It was inaugurated on 3 august 1778, under the auspices of the empress maria theresa of austria, replacing the royal ducal theatre. Director robert carsen discusses his new production of verdis falstaff which screens in australian cinemas nationally from january 18, 2014 as part of the met opera. Welcome to the website of the teatro alla scala in milan, where you can book tickets online, view the season programme opera, ballet, concert and discover the theatre through videos and images. Opera and classical concerts in milan and around classical events, always updated. Andrew graham dickson art historian and giorgio locatelli italian chef present a travelogue of lombardy and milan. After riccardo chailly opens the season with tosca, continuing the cycle of works by puccini, he will conduct his first strauss opera, as well as the complete beethoven symphonies. Programme, schedule for teatro alla scala opera theatre in milan, italy.
Milan, capital of italian business, often has the reputation as a staid and serious city, but peel back the layers and you will find more to this northern italian city than just meets the eye. University opera theatre and university symphony orchestra present francis poulencs les dialogues des carmelites. Stephane lissner, will leave milan to head the paris opera on sept. The first opera of the 201415 season will be barenboims swan song at. Luxury hotel milan 5star downtown hotel four seasons. The best 3 venues to experience the opera in milan. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. Milan also won the 2014 dubai challenge cup on 30 december following a 42 win over real madrid, the 2014 uefa champions league champions. Fall asleep under frescoes in highceilinged rooms, dine on authentic italian dishes on the airy veranda and recover from a day of shopping and sightseeing with a massage in our sleek, modern spa. The complete opera dates and casting for the 2014 2015 season at teatro alla scala, milan, including the programme for expo 2015. Pietro mascagni, artistic director for the teatros 190910 season, was at the same time an assiduous operagoer. The capitals main opera stage is in its teatro dellopera, also known as teatro costanzi, from the name of its founder, domenico costanzi. Valeria marini attends the teatro alla scala 201415 season opening on december 7, 2014 in milan, italy. Add a musical highlight to your italian holiday with an opera performance.
The season will also mark the 40th anniversary of riccardo chaillys collaboration with the theatre, and the 95th birthday of franco zeffirelli. So whether you are an opera buff or are planning a trip to italys second largest city, heres all you need to know about enjoying opera in milan. Tosca set in the eternal city of rome, puccinis opera in three acts tells the story of an idealistic artist and his paramour who. During the 2014 2015 season, he directed his first productions for the paris opera il barbiere di siviglia. As director of the zurich opera house from 1991 to 2012 and during a short tenure at the salzburg festival from 2011 to 2014, he placed an emphasis on new productions. City opera mounted it in 1969 and 1994, and the visiting mariinsky theatre brought a very traditional production to the met stage in 1998. Choose your classical concert or your opera in milan and lombardy, and book your tickets with. Met opera season 20142015 john varoli, may 16, 2015 november 8, 2016, opera houses, metropolitan opera, new york met opera, 0.
Opera fans and theater lovers, this is the perfect milan activity for you and an experience youll never forget. After the fire at the ducal theatre in 1776, a new theatre was built on the site of santa maria della scala from the name beatrice della scala, wife of duke bernabo visconti. Buy etickets simply online or by phone for all shows at the opera theater in milan. The two go together like wine and cheese, romeo and juliet or anthony and cleopatra. Milan siljanov is currently in the ensemble of the bavarian state opera in munich. Fidelio teatro alla scala 2014 production milano, italy opera. He will also make two italian house debuts this season, teatro carlo felice in genoa and teatro dal verme in milan, as he returns to the role of wen tianxiang in enjott schneiders marco polo under the baton of muhai tang. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 august 1778 and was originally known as the nuovo regio ducale teatro alla scala new royalducal theatre alla scala.
Milans opera house teatro alla scala pays tribute to. Milans mayor pisapia and the theaters boardadministration are fuming. Teatro alla scala a milano opera house milano, italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 august 1778 and was originally known as the new royalducal. Top events programme, schedule for teatro alla scala opera theatre in milan, italy.
Milan opera house tears up alexander pereiras original contract and replaces it with shorter one following controversy published. Warner dextrously balances the opera comiquestyle episodes with the more. April 22 the royal concertgebouw orchestra announces that mariss jansons is to conclude his chief conductorship of the orchestra after the 20142015 season. The italy of opera culture and entertainment travel ideas.
Since then ive performed all over the world, and i knew that at some point, the met and i. He is the winner of the prestigious wigmore hallkohn foundation international song competition in london in 2015. The metropolitan opera season that vanished the new york. This is a large, 3,000seat italianstyle theatre, with an orchestra of boxes whose occupants are also the owners who invest their money in the performances presented there. On 5 november, milan won trofeo luigi berlusconi after defeating san lorenzo, the winners of 2014 copa libertadores. A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. Milan opera house tears up alexander pereiras original contract and replaces it with shorter one following controversy lizzy davies in rome fri.
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