Stéphane Lissner: "The opera must abandon its ivory tower"

Stéphane Lissner, at the San Carlo Theater in Naples last Tuesday.

Photo Paolo Manzo

The terrace of the office of the superintendent of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the oldest operating opera institution in the world, looks out into the center of the only European city impervious to globalization and determined to maintain that mixed-race identity forged in social and cultural inequality .

Donizetti or Rossini sat in this chair to put order to the noise that came from the street.

They had a task similar to the one that has fallen to the man who can be seen from above crossing the pedestrian crossing of the Plaza del Plebiscito wrapped in his tribulations ...

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