Opening night, December 7, 2012, La Scala, Milan. HD performance by the "Opera in Cinema" series from Emerging Pictures, January 20, 2013. Creative Team.

Live broadcasts of opera in HD are not an unalloyed good. It's exciting to have a window into the world's great opera houses. It's depressing to realize just how many ...

An operatic feud at Milan's La Scala came to a head Wednesday when hundreds of workers called for music director Riccardo Muti to resign from the house he has run with an iron baton for almost 20 ...

In its warehouse, La Scala has about 60,000 costumes dating from 1911. Each year, 3,000 to 4,000 more are added. “Space is a big problem,” Ms. Citterio said, laughing.

An inside view of Milan's Opera House La Scala, Italy, prior to the start of the opening of the 2024-25 season featuring Giuseppe Verdi's 'La Forza del destino', Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.

Item 1 of 8 People attend the re-opening of La Scala opera house after it was closed due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Milan, Italy, May 10, 2021.

Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala presents Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” for its gala season premiere Saturday for the first time in 59 years, seeking to shake the opera's ...

For La Scala’s general manager, Dominique Meyer, that would be in August 2025, precluding a customary second mandate. His first runs out in the spring of that year.

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world’s most revered opera houses, announced on Monday that its next music director would be the South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung.