Mar 19th, 2010 · Sex, smuggling, cigarettes and murder. Now we're talking opera. Georges Bizet's popular Carmen is an opera-goer's guilty pleasure, with plenty of great tunes. Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, still early in her career, stars in a production from La Scala, in Milan.
Jan 8th, 2010 · It's hard to say who wrote the very first opera, but there's little doubt about the first, truly great one — it's Monteverdi's 1607 masterpiece, Orfeo, and it comes to World of Opera from a truly great opera house, Milan's La Scala.
Jan 7th, 2010 · It's hard to say who wrote the very first opera, but there's little doubt about the first, truly great one — it's Monteverdi's 1607 masterpiece, Orfeo, and it comes to World of Opera from a truly great opera house, Milan's La Scala.
Jul 3rd, 2009 · The opera has a scatterbrained story, full of decidedly goofy characters. Yet Rossini's gift for musical profiling, plus a raft of bravura arias and ensembles, make this La Scala production a comic gem.
Dec 19th, 2008 · La Scala's season opening production of Don Carlo caused a true sensation when management abruptly replaced the lead tenor with his understudy, American Stuart Neill, and the company's highly vocal fans made their feelings known.
Jun 18th, 2008 · Famed opera house La Scala has commissioned an opera based on Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth. The New York City Opera is working a version of the movie Brokeback Mountain. Nick Scholl of trrill.com talks about what these works might sound like, and about other modern operas that involve current events.
Dec 12th, 2006 · Top tenor Roberto Alagna has become the first singer in memory to walk off the stage of Milan's La Scala opera house in mid-performance. He stormed out after being booed by the audience in the middle of a performance of Verdi's Aida.
Dec 11th, 2006 · The Teatro Alla Scala says it will never allow tenor Roberto Alagna sing on its stage again, after Alagna left the stage during a performance of Aida Sunday night in Milan, Italy, in which he was booed by the audience at La Scala. Robert Siegel speaks with Enrico Girardi, a music critic for the Italian newspaper Corriera della Sera.