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Opera
on the move
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For
the first time in over fifty years La Scala is on
the move. Join us as we preview the new season at
Europe's most famous Opera House
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 As
always Milan's
most famous Opera House, Teatro
alla Scala, opens its winter
season on Friday December 7th.
The season starts in the world-famous La Scala Opera
House, but will move to Teatro
degli Arcimboldi in January when restoration
work will begin in La Scala's Piermarini room.
This is the first time since the Second World War,
that the performances have to be temporarily transferred
to another location.
The Arcimboldi theatre is modern, with cutting-edge
technology, more than 2400 places, excellent
reception facilities and a high level of comfort.
It is just outside the centre and attracts visitors
from both the hinterland and province of Milan.
This season's programme was devised in order to
appeal to a new, wider audience and includes both
opera classics as well as favourites from the worlds
of ballet and classic music.
The season pays tribute to Giuseppe
Verdi, opening with Otello
conducted by Riccardo
Muti and with Placido
Domingo in the titular role.
Verdi, with Muti at the helm once more, opens the
Scala's season at the Arcimboldi Theatre with La
Traviata featuring Liliana
Cavani's acclaimed sets. Muti will be back
in front of the orchestra once more in May for Giorgio
Strehler's celebrated version of Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart's The
Marriage of Figaro which recently premiered
in Vienna to an ecstatic audience. Speaking of Verdi,
the winner work in the Giuseppe Verdi Composition
Competition, Il processo (The trial) by the
Piedmontese composer Alberto
Colla, will be performed in the Strehler
Theatre at the end of the season. The work is based
on the eponymous novel by Franz
Kafka.
Besides the opera and ballet season the theatre
is also involved in numerous other activities -
music schools, masterclasses etc, - all of which
would be impossible to list here.
So here's to the new season, which sees tradition
triumph over the new but which also uses its relocation
to the Arcimboldi Theatre as the ideal chance to
make classical opera and ballet available to as
wide an audience as possible.
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FABIO
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Nov.
21st, 2001
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