A breeze of freedom caresses the Lombard plains.
While Italy is preparing to reopen its cultural venues under certain conditions, La Scala, the prestigious theater in Milan, in the north of the country, has announced its reopening, with a limit of five hundred spectators - on the 2,030 seats that account its room -, via press release.
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The choir and orchestra of the Scala Theater, led by Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly, will open the ball on May 10.
The next day, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Riccardo Mutti, will take to the prestigious stage, which will also host a house concert on May 17 conducted by Briton Daniel Harding.
On the other hand,
The Italian in Algiers
, opera-bouffe by Rossini, will be transmitted only in streaming on May 25, specifies the institution.
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While waiting to find the public, Riccardo Chailly, musical director of La Scala since January 2015 and recently extended until 2025, is currently recording behind closed doors a disc for Deutsche Grammophon, devoted to arias by Wagner and Strauss, performed by the soprano. Russian Anna Netrebko.
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On Monday, cinemas and theaters partially reopened in Italy, after a very long break linked to the pandemic.
A large majority of the twenty regions that make up the peninsula are now classified in yellow, the lowest level of risk in the face of the pandemic, which has already killed more than 120,000 in the country.
