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FROM AROUND THE WORLD: MILAN.(Review)
La Scala's new production of Un Ballo in Maschera was booed on opening night, but by the fourth performance (May 20), it was working quite well, and there was much to enjoy musically. The orchestral playing under Riccardo Muti's baton was consistently beautiful: from the opening prelude onward, the phrasing sounded right in every nuance, and the tempos were well chosen throughout. All that was missing was deep emotional involvement: the love duet lacked abandon, and the orchestral underlining in the lot-drawing scene in Act III seemed calculated for effect rather than felt inwardly.
The cast was a good one, though Ofelia Sala's Oscar lacked charm, her voice proving efficient but uningratiating. Salvatore Licitra, on the other hand, was much more impressive as Riccardo than as Manrico a few months earlier. He sang solidly throughout, with attractively burnished tone, good diction and a rousing close to "Si, rivederti Amelia" in Act III. What he has yet to find is an easy mezza voce, depth of feeling and genuine ...
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- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Poletti, Silvia May 1, 2002 700+ words
Leadership at La Scala Ballet seems finally settled with the December 2001 appointment...suddenly switching direction, some are wondering if the La Scala saga is really over. In 1999 La Scala invited Carla Fracci to rule the company and then denied...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire May 26, 2009 700+ words
...COLLEEN BARRY Claudio Abbado is returning to La Scala after more than 20 years, and the city...the city, and was musical director at La Scala for 17 years. His return is part of an effort by La Scala's general manager Stephane Lissner to...
- Colin Eatock on La Scala, politics and carrying on regardless.(Letter from...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada May 1, 2006 700+ words
THE NAME LA SCALA RESONATES DEEPLY IN THE OPERA world...authority. He had been music director of La Scala for 19 years, building one of finest...grudgingly obliged them, and suddenly La Scala's future seemed very much up in the...
- La Scala still succeeds in the culinary middle ground.(BUSINESS...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Styrwoll, Lindsey July 16, 2007 700+ words
LA SCALA Food: *** Service: *** Atmosphere...THE story behind the Beverly Hills eatery La Scala is the stuff of legend: A 19year-old...Catering to a crowd of big names, Leon's La Scala became a fixture among the Beverly Hills...
- AT LA SCALA IN HOBOKEN
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer September 23, 1994 700+ words
...Bergen County, NJ) 09-23-1994 AT LA SCALA IN HOBOKEN By BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer...Even the breads are enriched with it. At La Scala, on Hoboken's 14th Street, more than...theme -- after all, the place is called La Scala -- continues on the menu, with dishes...
- Cusine Journey; Viva La Scala.
- Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) January 25, 2000 700+ words
...pinnacles of French Cuisine in Seoul, the ``La Scala'' restaurant. ``La Scala' s Italian', I hear you say and you would be correct. The name is taken from the La Scala theatre in It ly. After the owner visited it...
- Trae ballet de la Scala dos versiones ineditas.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) January 27, 2005 700+ words
...visita a Mxico, el Ballet del Teatro de La Scala de Miln promete versiones nunca antes...dentro de la danza clsica. "Si bien la Scala de Miln se asocia mejor con la pera...de pesos), la presencia del Ballet de la Scala en el Pas represent un esfuerzo de ms...
- Hungry diners can take the La Scala challenge.(GO!)(Restaurant review)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) August 27, 2009 700+ words
...COLUMN: TABLE HOPPIN' New owners of La Scala Ristorante, 183 Shrewsbury St., Worcester...I finished my Seafood Fra Diavolo at La Scala Ristorante." Apparently, most diners...wife, Maria, and Tom Hammond took over La Scala in March from Tom Simone, who owned the...
