http://www.metafilter.com/tags/lascala Posts tagged with 'lascala' at MetaFilter. Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:06:18 -0800 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:06:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/122875/Opening%2DNight%2Dat%2DLa%2DScala <a href="http://www.cinquantamila.it/sfogliatore/sfogliatore.html?sfogliatore.php&amp;inizio=1&amp;subject=TeatroScala50">GlamourFilter: Opening Night at La Scala.</a> Pictures from <a href="http://www.teatroallascala.org/en/index.html">La</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala">Scala</a>'s opening nights, dating through the fifties and sixties. (Main story <a href="http://www.cinquantamila.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=teatroscala50#">here</a>, slideshow <a href="http://www.cinquantamila.it/sfogliatore/sfogliatore.html?sfogliatore.php&inizio=3&subject=TeatroScala50">here</a>, those links in Italian, but easy enough to figure out for non-speakers.) Pictures of Callas, Toscanini, Princess Grace, Dick and Liz, and many more, all looking impossibly fab and glamourous. (<a href="http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/2012/12/kicking-it-old-school-.html">Via</a> the always informative and entertaining <a href="http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/">Opera Chic</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122875 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:06:18 -0800 anightattheopera callas celebrities elizabethtaylor fifties glamour gracekelly italian italy lascala milan milano ohmystars openingnight opera operachic photos pictures princessgrace richardburton scala sixties slideshow Capt. Renault http://www.metafilter.com/37343/Dove%2Dpossiamo%2Dsentire%2Dlopera After a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3901351.stm">three-year absence</a> and $108 million <a href="http://www.comune.milano.it/cantierescala/index.html">in renovations</a>, Europe's premier grand dame of opera houses, Milan's <i><a href="http://www.teatroallascala.org/">Teatro alla Scala</a></i>, will <a href="http://www.metguild.org/operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=598">reopen</a> on <a href="http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19594">December 7, 2004</a>. The honor of the opening night opera has been delegated to <a href="http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=salieri">Antonio</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri">Salieri</a> through <a href="http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Salieri_Antonio.html">his</a> obscure opera-ballet <i><a href="http://www.istc.org/sisp/?fx=event&event_id=108672">Europa Riconosciuta</a></i>, which is the very same opera that inaugurated <i>La Scala's</i> first season in 1778, and has not been performed in 226 years. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37343 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:32:08 -0800 antoniosalieri ballet brokenlink europariconsciuta lascala opera operaballet operahouse renovations theater theatre naxosaxur