La Scala Theater

Teatro alla Scala
Rating 8110

13 december 2015Travel time: 14 march 2014
Tickets for performances are sold not in the theater, but in the underpass near the Duomo, a 5-minute walk away. There was just one ticket to the box for me, but I was not ready to pay for it almost as much as I paid for the flight to Milan and back. In addition, I needed a black evening suit, which I would not take on a trip for the sake of one visit to the opera. Despite the democratic nature of Milan (where else can you meet a lady in a chic fur coat on a bicycle? ), the theater is in another dimension. It is impossible for the viewer to get from the parterre to the gallery and back - these zones are connected only across the street. An elevator is taken to the gallery to the left of the main entrance, and an elite audience in suits and evening dresses of an exclusively black and white color scheme goes through the main entrance.

I had to limit myself to a standing ticket to the gallery.
They are sold on the day of the performance at the ticket office at the Cathedral for daytime performances or in the theater gallery on the right if the performance is in the evening, but you need to spend almost the whole day on the purchase: register in the afternoon and get the queue number on an identity document, at 5 pm during roll call on documents to receive a voucher and only at 6 pm during the next roll call with the presentation of documents to receive a ticket. This is how they fight speculation, but it still exists - some type, not very similar to an Italian, offered me a ticket to the balcony for 75 euros, but I did not want to risk it, the ticket could be fake.

There are no language problems - there is a monitor in the back of the chair in front of the viewer, where the translation will be broadcast in the language chosen at will. The vocals, of course, are impeccable, but the performance left a painful impression.
"The Tsar's Bride" in the "new reading" is turned into scenes from the life of our lads, where instead of the royal feast there is a criminal gathering of the "Russian mafia", obviously more familiar to the author of the next "new reading" of the classics from Berlin, but of Russian blood. He does not know another Russia or does not want to know!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

Comments (5) leave a comment
аватар B.O..
B.O..

Misprint: The theater box office is on the left side of the building.

Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 02:19
аватар staruha_izergil
staruha_izergil

Suddenly. For some reason, I thought that all kinds of experiments are peculiar only to our theater directors. And European theaters avoid new readings and new realities on their stages.

Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 10:24
аватар B.O..
B.O..

Chernyakov is ours, albeit a Berliner nau! But local figures are tirelessly engaged in "improving the classics."

Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 10:38
аватар illusia
illusia

What a nightmare! I normally perceive the "modernization" of classical performances, but not to the same interpretation.

Thanks for the detailed information on how to get to the theatre. :)

Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 13:34
аватар B.O..
B.O..

At the beginning of this year, information about buying tickets was relevant - a friend used it in the spring.
I think that there should be some kind of framework for modernizing, but some "creators" do not know the measure.

Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 14:48
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