At La Scala, audience members were abuzz about the opera’s cursed history. Some said they avoided even uttering its name, fearing bad luck. Dvora Ancona, a cosmetic surgeon in Milan, was not ...

The opera house’s general manager, ... (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, ...

La Scala Opera Taps an Italian to Be Its Next Leader Fortunato Ortombina, the general director of Teatro La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario.

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a new ...

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a new… ...

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a ...

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a ...

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a ...

MILAN (AP) — Photographer Gérard Uféras was granted full access to the La Scala ballet corps’ backstage over six years to produce a series of emotional, candid portraits at the heart of a new… ...

A timeline in the exhibition's first room recounts that La Scala’s inaugural performance of Antonio Salieri’s “L’Europa riconosciuta," on Aug. 3, 1778, was accompanied by two ballets.