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Venue: Teatro alla Scala, Milan

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AddressVia Filodrammatici, 2
20121 Milan
Lombardy
Italy
Google maps45° 28' 2.652" N 9° 11' 22.375" E
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MilanMunich Philharmonic Orchestra

Munich Philharmonic
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schubert
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Lahav Shani

MilanLirismo francese

© DR
Artists of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala

MilanFaustNew production

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Gounod: Faust
Daniele Rustioni; Johannes Erath; Teatro alla Scala; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Fabio Antoci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanBalanchine / Bausch / Stravinsky

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Stravinsky
George Balanchine; Pina Bausch; Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanRiccardo Chailly / Bruckner 9

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Bruckner: Symphony no. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
Filarmonica della Scala; Riccardo Chailly

MilanBenjamin Bernheim

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Gounod, Massenet, Bizet, Puccini, Verdi
Benjamin Bernheim; Mathieu Pordoy

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

MilanThe Nutcracker

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Rudolf Nureyev; Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company; Andrea Quinn; Nicholas Georgiadis; Andrea Giretti
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Emotionally compelling: Anna Netrebko in Verdi’s Requiem at La Scala

Riccardo Chailly with soloists Caterina Piva, Anna Netrebko, Antonio Poli and Michele Petrusi © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Gold dust, shattered shop windows and a soprano between profanity and prayer: Anna Netrebko’s dark intensity meets rare tenderness in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, as Milan’s unrest invades La Scala.
****1
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Salvation, damnation and circus magic: Teatro alla Scala’s new Faust

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

The Teatro alla Scala closes its season with a visually audacious new production of Faust, directed by Johannes Erath, and driven by Daniele Rustioni’s fiery conducting. 

***11
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Tradition reclaimed in Liliana Cavani’s lavish Traviata at La Scala

Nadine Sierra (Violetta) and ensemble © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

Reaching a milestone 100th performance, Liliana Cavani’s grand staging of La traviata returns in fine form, featuring a luminous Nadine Sierra as Violetta.

****1
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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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