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Leontyne Price is 90 – best wishes and photographic memories from La Scala
On this day, 10 February 1927, Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississipi.To celebrate her 90th birthday, La Scala joins companies, colleagues and fans the world over in wishing her a happy...
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First look: Stravinsky ballet evening at La Scala conducted by Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta will be conducting La Scala’s orchestra for a Stravinsky double-bill with the theatre’s ballet company: Petrushka and The Rite of Spring.Michel Fokine’s choreography and Alexandre Benois’...
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La Scala and the artists of La traviata donate proceeds to earthquake victims
La traviata returns to La Scala in Liliana Cavani’s beautiful 1990 production with sets by three-time Oscar winner Dante Ferretti, and the sumptuous costumes of Gabriella Pescucci. As always, the run...
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Petrushka and Le sacre du printemps strike a triumphant note at La Scala
Starting on a positive note: the Stravinsky Evening at La Scala, with Petrushka and Le sacre du printemps, was an unmitigated success, thoroughly enjoyable and received a long, standing ovation from...
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The Bordeaux National Ballet needs your support… please sign the petition
Italy has just lost another ballet company, that of Verona, which had been whittled down to twenty members over the last few years. A couple of decades ago, when Carla Fracci headed the company, it...
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Composer György Kurtág celebrates his 91st birthday, and 70th wedding...
Today, Hungarian composer György Kurtág is celebrating his 91st birthday, and also his 70th wedding anniversary.He and his pianist wife, Márta, have been presented with a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award...
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Interview with Fabio Luisi, the Florence Opera’s new Musical Director
Fabio Luisi is the new music director of Florence’s Opera di Firenze and its spring festival, known as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta, who has been chief conductor of the Orchestra del...
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David Aladashvili answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Musicians’ Edition
Q&A When did you start playing the piano? Well, I should have started earlier. Why did you start playing? Ballet didn’t work out 🙂 Which pianist inspired you most when you were young? Eliso...
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky postpones recitals for further brain tumour treatment
Dmitri Hvorostovsky is having to postpone upcoming recitals in Kaliningrad and Minsk as well as cancel his Wiener Staatsoper recital on March 7 after being advised by his doctors to continue treatment...
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Introducing Michele Esposito… winner of the Prix de Lausanne 2017
Michele Esposito has won the Prix de Lausanne 2017. The first prize, sponsored by the Swiss investment firm Adveq, was not his only award as he also won the Best Swiss Candidate Prize as well as the...
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Traviata opens tonight at La Scala… here’s a sneak peek
The staging of La traviata is the lavish Liliana Cavani production with sets by Dante Ferretti with which Verdi’s masterpiece returned to La Scala in 1990 conducted by Riccardo Muti. It was performed...
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Do you love dance? Then please read this…
First of all, this article is about getting more people to sign a petition to raise awareness among Italy’s political class about the damage they are doing in allowing so many ballet companies to...
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Meeting Davide Dato, the Italian ballet star who’s finally hitting the...
Salsa, merengue and mambo… that’s how I started dancing. So says Davide Dato, Principal Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet. Many classical dancers began in their living room imitating Michael Jackson’s...
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English National Ballet 2017 – 2018 Autumn/Winter Season
English National Ballet’s new season contains new exciting projects from Tamara Rojo, who keeps her magic wand carefully hidden or has a genius sense of what will stimulate and satisfy not just ENB’s...
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Bronx Opera celebrates 50 years of activity… libiamo!
Bronx Opera was formed 50 years ago.. a good reason to celebrate.It is the second-oldest company in New York that has continually-presented opera over the last half-century and it has given experience...
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14 minutes of applause for Anna Netrebko at La Scala in La traviata...
Anna Netrebko has returned to La Scala to sing Violetta as she sings ‘addio’ to the role. She will sing in a Traviata once more in Paris next February, and then that’s it for the curvy Russian and the...
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Photo album: First look at the new Crystal Pite ballet for The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet celebrates the diversity and richness of contemporary ballet with a mixed programme that includes an established classic, a recent work and a world premiere: David Dawson’s first work...
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Teatro Comunale di Bologna pulls its orchestra and chorus from Rossini Opera...
Rossini Opera FestivalThe Rossini Opera Festival and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna have announced their separation after 30 years.Starting with a Petite Messe Solennelle in 1987, Bologna has provided...
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Picasso in Rome, with Diaghilev, Cocteau and Massine: The Ballets Russes and...
One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months. It was his first trip to Italy. The Ballets Russes was in town and Picasso was eager to begin work on his designs for Parade, the ballet...
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Toscanini was born 150 years ago today… a quick summing up of a man and his...
Arturo Toscanini is the epitome of what a conductor should be according to the mass imagination. Like Caruso and Callas, his fame went beyond the concert halls, past the record-buyers and radio...
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