Teatro alla Scala, closed-door premiere goes on TV for an evening event

This year, the December 7 premiere of La Scala Theater will be the star of a special evening visible in everyone’s homes: the theaters are closed, but the famous Milanese theater has thought of inviting all Italians to the annual event, broadcasting live on television on Rai1, starting at 5 p.m., the evening A rived rived le stelle, directed by Davide Livermore. It will also be streamed on Raiplay and can be heard live on radio on RaiRadio3.

Music director Riccardo Chailly will conduct the theater’s orchestra and chorus, but the event will be celebrated by twenty-three of the greatest voices of our tenpo from around the world and by étoile and prima ballet dancers from the corps de ballet. It will also be the evening of the technicians, tailors, set designers, and all those involved in the production of the show.

It will begin with excerpts from operas by Giuseppe Verdi and continue with Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner, and Gioachino Rossini, while the music for the ballets is by Pyotr Il’ic Tchaikovsky and Davide Di Leo. Choreography is by Manuel Legris, Rudolf Nureyev and Massimiliano Volpini.

The sung and danced moments will be linked and contextualized by texts recited by actors to create a continuity between the arts. Protagonists on stage Ildar Abdrazakov, Roberto Alagna, Carlos Álvarez, Piotr Beczala, Benjanin Bernheim, Eleonora Buratto, Marianne Crebassa, Plácido Domingo, Rosa Feola, Juan Diego Flórez, Elina Garanca, Vittorio Grigolo, Jonas Kaufmann, Aleksandra Kurzak, Francesco Meli, Camilla Nylund, Kristine Opolais, Lisette Oropesa, George Petean, Marina Rebeka, Luca Salsi, Andreas Schager, Ludovic Tézier, and Sonya Yoncheva.

On the ballet side there will beétoile Roberto Bolle, principal dancers Timofej Andrijashenko, Martina Arduino, Claudio Coviello, Nicoletta Manni and Virna Toppi, and soloists Marco Agostino and Nicola Del Freo. For the dance parts, the orchestra is conducted by Michele Gamba.

The stage design, which features the theater with the orchestra in the center of the stalls and artists placed not only on the stage but connected by the boxes and in different spaces of the building, is by Giò Forma with lighting by Antonio Castro and video by D-Wok.

Partners Intesa Sanpaolo, Edison, ROLEX, BMW, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia and LG Electronics Italia are thanked for the evening.

“It will be a different December 7 than usual, but it will be a symbolic moment to show that we want to be there despite these difficult times,” said Riccardo Chailly. “We will enter the dream factory of beauty,” added director Davide Livermore. “We hope it will be a dream evening and that these ambassadors of beauty who are the artists, the singers, the dancers, the orchestra, the chorus will be able to give emotions and give some confidence in the future, in this difficult time for so many”: these are the words of Superintendent Dominique Meyer. “December 7 is a very special date for me,” concludes Roberto Bolle, “because I grew up here at La Scala: from student to étoile. Sometimes I was on stage, other times I was in the audience to experience the art and charm of this event. This year it will be different and difficult, but we want to give an important message: art and culture do not stop, which is for me the main message of this December 7. I will dance Massimo Volpini’s solo with laser beams. There will be the whole theater together to represent the rebirth of art and beauty as a vehicle and as a possible light at the end of the tunnel we are living.”

For info: www.teatroallascala.org

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Teatro alla Scala, closed-door premiere goes on TV for an evening event

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