Instead of lounging in the pressroom with glass of something bubbly in my hand during the opening of La Scala’s season, I found myself in the wings holding a mic and trying to describe – and translate – what was going on around me.
The idea for this first live backstage video stream came from Silvia Farina, who is responsible for La Scala’s digital adventures, and was with me onstage. The world’s most famous opera house has been quickly catching up in the social media sphere, and this is the latest of a series of steps to open its doors to an even wider public. So for Deborah Warner's new production of Fidelio, which is Daniel Barenboim's last production as the theatre's Musical Director, there were three cameras backstage throughout the opera, and before, after and during the interval Silvia and I babbled into our Sennheisers and interviewed some of the figures indispensable for making it all happen. ...continue reading.
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