Scala

The Scala of Milan , in Italian Teatro went Scala (litt. theater on the scale) is a building sheltering a opera with Milan, in Italy.

It forms part, with the Fenice of Venice and the Teatro San Carlo of Naples of the three most prestigious rooms of opera of Italy.

History

It was built in two years by the architect Giuseppe Piermarini on the order of Marie-Therese of Austria after the destruction by the fire of the old ducal theater. It was inaugurated the August 3rd 1778 in the presence of the Ferdinand archduke of Austria with the opera Europa riconosciuta of Antonio Salieri. The selected site is that of the church Santa Maria della Scala (“Virgin on the scale”) which was destroyed on this occasion, leaving only its name to the theater.

This theater saw the evolution of the Italian opera with Domenico Cimarosa, the creation of several major operas of the repertory Italian whose It turco in Italia of Rossini, It Pirated (1827) and especially Norma (1831) of Vincenzo Bellini. The room suffers however from the competition of the other sites whose Teatro Carcano located in the same city and who sees the creation of several major works.

It is Giuseppe Verdi which made there the first of several large works and which makes it possible the room to arrive at current prestige, even if the latter forsakes the place starting from 1845. La Scala still gives representations prestigious but there is no more hardly of major creation. Made green returns then with Aida in 1872 (but its creation place in Egypt had), with Otello (1887), finally with Fastaff in 1893.

La Scala gave many representations of the operas of Richard Wagner like those of theverist ones.

It was also a major place of choreographic art . Many a Ballet S is represented there each year. Largest stars of the ballet dancing already pressed the boards of this mythical place. One can quote Carla Fracci, Sylvie Guillem, Rudolf Noureev, Maya Plisetskaya, Patrick Dupond, Margot Fonteyn, Alessandra Ferri and so much of others still.

It was bombarded in 1943 and only in 1946 could reopen.

Arturo Toscanini was the Leader the most famous. It was followed in particular by Claudio Abbado in 1972 and Riccardo Muti in 1986.

It was closed in 2001 for a restoration. Reopening took place the December 7th 2004 and one interpreted there the same work of Salieri as to his inauguration, under the direction of Riccardo Muti.

The orchestra of Scala had a certain number of prestigious chiefs, most famous being undoubtedly Arturo Toscanini which began there in 1898 with the Masters Singers from Nuremberg and there continues a career until in 1929 date where it joined the United States. It was followed, inter alia by Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti, this last giving its resignation in 2005 after social movements.

The most known singer remains Maria Callas starting from 1951.

Operas created in Scala

Principal chief and musical director

Superintendant

External bonds

  1. official Internet site of Scala of Milan

Simple: La Scala

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