Agree, it may not have been the Prima di Sant’Ambrogio but the emotion, for many, and its symbolic significance, were even greater. After 199 days of closure to the public due to the pandemic, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan has also reopened its doors to the spectators, with a concert by the Piermarini Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Riccardo Chailly, artistic director of the theater. Tuesday will be the turn of the Wiener Philharmoniker directed by Riccardo Muti, while on 17 May it will be Daniel Harding’s turn to take the podium to conduct the Filarmonica della Scala.
This is, they explain from the theater, a gradual reopening, with a contingent audience for the celebratory event, which in addition to marking the return of the public in attendance (after months of streaming activities: 35 evenings of opera and ballet, symphonic concerts, recitals singing and children’s shows), commemorates the 75th anniversary of the reopening of Piermarini, in 1946, after the years of dictatorship and war.
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Understandably happy the superintendent Dominique Meyer, who arrived at the helm of La Scala at the most difficult moment, on March 1, 2020: “La Scala has always played this role, when it comes to getting back on its feet and moving forward: today we want to give a sign of optimism, of positive pleasure, he said.
For Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan and president of the Opera Foundation, it was «a Scala like we’ve never seen it before. A heartfelt thanks to the workers, whose commitment has allowed us to write this new page in the glorious history of our theater ». The president of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, said that “with the vaccinations completed it will be possible to increase the number of spectators: we will ask the CTS if there are the conditions to do so”.
Among the guests of the evening there was also the vice president of the Region and councilor for Welfare, Letizia Moratti: “This evening’s opening is also of great value for theater operators and for all the people who, through culture, will be able to have of sociality », Moratti commented.