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MilanLucia di Lammermoor

Rosa Feola (Lucia) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Speranza Scappucci; Yannis Kokkos; Teatro alla Scala; Vinicio Cheli; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanL'elisir d'amoreNew production

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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Marco Alibrando; Maria Mauti; Teatro alla Scala; Orchestra dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala; Coro di voci bianche dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala

MilanLa traviata

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Verdi: La traviata
Michele Gamba; Liliana Cavani; Teatro alla Scala; Dante Ferretti; Gabriella Pescucci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Coro del Teatro alla Scala

MilanFaustNew production

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Gounod: Faust
Daniele Rustioni; Johannes Erath; Teatro alla Scala; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Fabio Antoci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanOtelloNew production

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Verdi: Otello
Myung-whun Chung; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro alla Scala; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanLes Pêcheurs de perlesNew production

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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles
Henrik Nánási; Arnaud Bernard; Teatro alla Scala; Alessandro Camera; Maria Carla Ricotti; Marco Filibeck; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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Scappucci and Feola lead a compelling Lucia at La Scala

Rosa Feola (Lucia) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

La Scala offers Lucia di Lammermoor as Donizetti intended it: complete, dramatically coherent and free of traditional cuts – a musicological achievement and a gripping theatrical experience.

****1
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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.
**111
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Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s La Scala farewell

Anna Netrebko (Abigaille) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship with the Milanese audience has clearly deepened over the years.
*****
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Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala

Sara Blanch (Mélisande) and Bernard Richter (Pelléas) © Monika Rittershaus | Teatro alla Scala

The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.

****1
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Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival

Anna Pirozzi (Turandot) and Mariangela Sicilia (Liù) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

Visually enchanting and meticulously staged, this centenary revival confirms Livermore's production as a modern classic. 

****1
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The Ring returns to the Rhine: Götterdämmerung at La Scala

Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) and Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Under Alexander Soddy’s powerful conducting and Sir David McVicar’s dark, evocative staging, the Ring finds a searing conclusion, anchored by a powerful Brünnhilde from Camilla Nylund, as the world burns.
*****
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René Barbera: a bel canto season in Europe

As he prepares a season of debuts in some of the biggest European houses, American tenor René Barbera takes time to reflect on his bel canto roles and the challenges ahead. 

Netrebko headlines new La Scala season

Few opera singers capture the public imagination like Anna Netrebko. And there are few more glittering occasions in the opera calendar than the opening night of the season at the Teatro alla Scala.