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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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MilanLirismo francese

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Artists of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala

MilanGiselle

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Adam: Giselle
Jean Coralli; Jules Perrot; Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company; Mikhail Agrest; Alexandre Benois; Andrea Giretti

MilanLa traviata

Nadine Sierra (Violetta) and ensemble © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Verdi: La traviata
Michele Gamba; Liliana Cavani; Teatro alla Scala; Dante Ferretti; Gabriella Pescucci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Coro del Teatro alla Scala

MilanRudolf Buchbinder

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Beethoven
Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano

MilanBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Le Sacre du printemps

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Stravinsky
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle

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

MilanVerdi: Messa da Requiem / Riccardo Chailly

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Riccardo Chailly; Anna Netrebko; Elīna Garanča; Fabio Sartori; Michele Pertusi

MilanBalanchine / Bausch / Stravinsky

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Stravinsky
George Balanchine; Pina Bausch; Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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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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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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Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala is pure magic

Teatro alla Scala in Rudolf Nureyev's The Sleeping Beauty © Teatro alla Scala
Rudolf Nureyev’s production of The Sleeping Beauty is still a magnificent showcase for La Scala after nearly 60 years.
*****
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