“Please answer, we will resume later”, the teacher Riccardo Chailly thus he addressed a spectator of the La Scala theater in Milan during the evening dedicated to the great Verdi concerts. The mobile phone in the audience rang right in the “moment of greatest emotion”, according to Piermarini, the chorus from Macbeth from Patria oppressa. And the director interrupted the execution, addressing the ‘jammer’ directly.
“You see, friends, there are many of us on this great Verdi journey with the orchestra and choir of La Scala, but – Chailly told the audience – we are not alone, because we are making an recording for the Decca in London for which we will still be many more. It is an important thing. A homeland oppressed with the obstinate mobile phone is not possible “. Then, after a long applause from the audience, he resumed the execution.
Just today, La Scala presented the next season 2022/2023: 14 works, one more than the previous program, many new productions, some of which have already been ready from last season. Eight ballet titles, seven symphonic concerts including the return of Daniele Gatti, three great shows for children, for a total of 272 performances, including ten concerts by the Filarmonica della Scala. And the opening, on December 7, with Boris Godunov, a masterpiece of the Russian Musorsgksij.
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