La Scala in Milan, closed due to the pandemic, presented on Wednesday the exceptional evening it will organize on December 7 with stars like Plácido Domingo and Roberto Alagna, without an audience but broadcast on television.
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During a press conference, the management of Italy's most famous opera house unveiled "A riveder le stelle" ("
To see the stars again
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the evening of music and dance with which La Scala, despite the closure of theaters and the prolongation of the health crisis, confirms its evening of Saint Ambrose
”on December 7, the traditional date for the launch of its season and one of the largest cultural events on the peninsula.
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Evening of hope and determination
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On December 7, 24 of the greatest voices of our time will be in Milan to show their solidarity with a theater which has been affected even more than the others by the pandemic,
" La Scala announced in a statement, recalling that the second Covid wave had led to the cancellation of all its shows scheduled since September.
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It will be an evening of hope and determination during which La Scala and La Rai (Italian public television) will bring Italians into the homes (but also in France and Germany thanks to an agreement with the channel Arte, and in many other countries) the values of opera and dance through their most prestigious performers.
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Besides Alagna and Domingo, will be present among others the singers Ildar Abdrazakov, Carlos Álvarez, Piotr Beczala, Benjamin Bernheim, Eleonora Buratto, Marianne Crebassa, Rosa Feola, Francesco Meli or Camilla Nylund, among others.
The ballet part, directed by Michele Gamba, will take part the star dancer Roberto Bolle, but also the first dancers Martina Arduino, Claudio Coviello, Nicoletta Manni and Virna Toppi.
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On the program for this exceptional evening: extracts from operas by Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Jules Masenet, Richard Wagner and Gioachino Rossini, as well as ballet music by Tchaikovsky, Davide Dileo, Erik Satie and Giuseppe Verdi.
The choreographies are by Manuel Legris, Rudolf Nureyev and Massimiliano Volpini.
Opera arias and dance performances will be complemented by texts read by actors.
For this exceptional performance without an audience, the orchestra will take place in the middle of the floor, while the artists will not only be on the main stage but also scattered throughout the other spaces of the famous theater and in its workshops.