The plot is simple: Fallito, a bankrupt impresario, mounts a new opera, but rehearsals unravel as librettist and composer bicker and sopranos claw at each other. The near sellout La Scala audience ...

In Milan last week 200 plainclothesmen were sprinkled through the audience in famed La Scala opera house, and outside, strong police squads stood ready. There had been hints of trouble.

For centuries, audiences have visited the legendary opera house, Teatro alla Scala, to witness timeless masterpieces by Verdi, Bellini, and Donizetti, where they were first brought to life.

TASS/. Boris Godunov, an opera composed by Russia’s Modest Mussorgsky, has enjoyed a successful run at Milan’s La Scala opera house. As the theater told a TASS correspondent on Tuesday ...

The opera’s presentation took place on Friday, the day after Ukrainian Consul General in Milano Andrey Kartysh urged to cancel it MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. Milan’s La Scala opera house will ...