Mussorgsky’s ‘Boris Godunov’ opens the season at La Scala in Milan, with Riccardo Chailly at the helm

Chailly, the Russian teacher Milan. 12/13/2022. Teatro alla Scala. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov. Ildar Abdrazakov (Boris Godunov). Lylly Jorstad (Fedor). Anna Denisova (Ksenija). Ain Anger (Pimen). Stanislav Trofimov (Varlaam). Alexey Markov (Scelkalov). Norbert Ernst (Vasilij Sujskij and others. Riccardo Chailly, musical direction. Kasper Holten, stage direction. The Teatro alla Scala from Milan has decided to open … Read more

The spirituality of Sant’Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori and the deep bond with Scala

The French writer Andre GideNobel Prize for Literature in 1947, defined Ladder “an almost metaphysical escalier, which takes you to the top and keeps you suspended in infinite contemplation”. It was right in the oldest village on the Amalfi Coast that Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori, bishop and doctor of the church, found his spiritual … Read more