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Monday, March 8th 2010
8 March 2010. On occasion of international women’s day, the Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen directs the philharmonic orchestra of Teatro La Scala in a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony n.9 in D major, the last symphony written by the Austrian composer between 1908 and 1909. The concert starts at 20.00. more
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
24 Feb-2 March 2010. Milan’s fashion week is crowned by the site-specific installation, House of Shades, by the Indian artist Sudarshan Shetty, who presents his work for the first time in Milan in the busy Vittorio Emanuele II gallery. From the outside Shetty’s creation consists of an iron frame with hundreds of observing sun glasses propped against the walls, which vibrate and slip on the platform that sustains them. Shetty’s glasses make viewers focus on what is inside them and give them a renewed awareness of their body. In a society overrun by stimuli, images, sounds and commercials, there is a risk of concentrating on the outside and losing sight of what is within. Shetty, who lives and works in Mumbai, was discovered last June by the president of the Luis Vuitton Maison, Yves Carcelle, at the Art Basel international exhibition. more
Kopatchinskaja at Teatro Dal Verme
Thursday, February 25th 2010
25, 27 Feb 2010. The renowned violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs together with the orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali conducted by Antonello Manacorda. The young Moldovan musician, better known as the barefoot fiddler because she performs shoeless, appears for the first time in Milan with her very original interpretation of masterpieces by Beethoven and Schuman. more
Da una casa di morti by Janacek.
Sunday, February 28th 2010
28 Feb-16 March 2010. Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, directed by Patrice Chéreau, with Willard White, Eric Stoklossa, Stefan Margita, Jiri Sulzenko, John Mark Ainsley. Review by Paolo Di Nicola. La Scala di Milano propone Da una casa di morti (28 febbraio-16 marzo), l’ultima opera di Leoš Janáček, rappresentata postuma e in ogni messa in scena modificata nella musica e nel libretto, fino al 1958 quando a Praga fu eseguita in una versione fedele all’originale. È tratta da un romanzo di Dostoevskij: si svolge in un campo di lavoro in Siberia e anticipa ciò che accadrà nei lager nazisti e nei gulag staliniani. Musicalmente ricorre al sistema dei leitmotiv di derivazione wagneriana, ma realizzato con più complessità e arditezza. Lo spettacolo porta la firma di Patrice Chéreau: è già stato presentato a Vienna e a New York, dove è stato giudicato un capolavoro che racconta con forza e coraggio gli orrori delle carceri di tutti i tempi. La direzione è di Esa-Pekka Salonen, stimato un ottimo interprete del repertorio sinfonico e operistico del Novecento. more
Milan. Don Giovanni by Mozart.
Sunday, February 14th 2010
30 Jan-14 Feb 2010. Conducted by Louis Langrée, directed by Peter Mussbach, with Erwin Schott, Georg Zeppenfeld, Carmela Remigio, Emma Bell. more
Sunday, January 24th 2010
24 Jan-7 Mar 2010. This exhibition features famous shots and unpublished images by one of the most renowned fashion photographers, the London-based artist Tim Walker. In his work Walker evokes a sense of epic drama and extreme beauty in a continuous contrast between reality and fantasy. He complements scenes from daily life with absurd and fabulous images, recreating a magic world without having recourse to artificial manipulation. Walker was born in England in 1970. His passion for photography emerged after he worked at Cecil Beaton’s archive. After studying photography at the Exeter College of Art, Walker worked as an assistant of Richard Avedon in New York before returning to England to concentrate on portraits and documentaries and then on fashion photography. His works are part of the permanent collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. more
15th European Photography Award “Riccardo Pezza”.
Sunday, January 24th 2010
24 Jan-7 Feb 2010. This exhibition presents the work of eight young photographers who have won the 15th edition of the European Photography Award “Riccardo Pezza”. This year the competitors were required to tell the story of a place that has changed conceptually and existentially over the years. The selected photographers are Arianna Arcara, Giusi Fanella, Oliver Fermariello, Noemie Goudal, Anette Jonak, Bernd Kleinheisterkamp, Patricia Neligan and Sophie Von Herzogemberg. This competition was created in 1995 in memory of Riccardo Pezza, a young photographer who died prematurely, and is dedicated to young people who want to undertake a career in photography. It pays special attention to the high level of training needed by photographers in order to capture the complexity of contemporary culture. more
Thursday, February 18th 2010
18-21 Feb 2010. FieraMilano hosts the 30th edition of this international trade fair entirely dedicated to tourism. BIT 2010 has a full calendar of meetings and events providing visitors with a comprehensive overview of what is on offer in the sector. The fair is divided into themed sections, such as Bit Itinera, dedicated to religious tourism; Bit Buy Italy, with 2,200 international buyers interested in Italian products; Buy Club for associative tourism; and Bit Sposa dedicated to weddings. This edition also has two special areas: Bit 4 Cities, dedicated to short vacations in world capitals and art cities; and Bit Venues & Locations, devoted to the use of prestigious locations for business and incentives. more
Balletto del Teatro alla Scala.
Wednesday, January 29th 2020
13-20 Feb. In Don Quixote, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. The year 1966 saw Nureyev’s first production of Don Quixote for the Vienna Opera. On that occasion he danced the role of the young barber Basilio, showing a side of his character that had not yet been revealed elsewhere: a mischievous sense of fun. Building on the version he had known in Russia, he made new additions such as a comic duel between the tottery old Knight and Gamache and many new numbers. He also changed the order of the dances and added an important new section, a romantic pas de deux beneath the old windmill, to music by the same composer, Ludwig Minkus, borrowed from La Bayadère. more
MILAN. Compagnia della Rancia.
Friday, January 29th 2010
27 Jan-14 Feb. In Cats, choreography by Daniel Ezralow. It has been around for almost 30 years, and finally the all-singing, all-dancing musical spectacular based on the poems from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats has an official Italian version. Italy’s only real “musical company”, the Compagnia della Rancia, has managed to secure the services of successful choreographer Daniel Ezralow of “Momix” and “Amici” fame in the hope of increasing its popularity. However, Anglophones and those who have seen Cats in London or on Broadway will most probably be disappointed. more