Front Row at the Movies
You’ll Want to See
(and Hear)
“Teatro Alla Scala”
Reviewed by Shirrel
Rhoades
While we regularly report on the feature films found at local venues, we
sometimes overlook special events like the Art & Architecture in the Cinema
series at the Tropic. Tsk, tsk.
On Sunday you can catch the latest entry, “Teatro Alla Scala: The Temple
Of Wonders.”
La Scala (as it’s called for short) is an opera house in Milan, Italy.
But the magnificent structure is more than that … it has been called “a marvelous place, where the most glorious pages in
the history of music, opera and ballet have been written.”
Most of world’s greatest operatic
stars and conductors have appeared at La Scala during the past 200 years. Opened in 1778, La Scala was built on the site of an
earlier theater destroyed by fire. Between 2002 and 2004 it
underwent a major renovation at a cost of nearly $68 million.
The theatre features over 3,000
seats grouped into 678
stalls, arranged in six tiers above two galleries. The stage is one of the
largest in Europe.
La Scala has hosted the prima
(first production) of many famous operas.
Directors Silvia Corbetta and Luca
Lucini have put together a fascinating film, one that might be viewed as a
travelogue confined to one world-famous opera house. The accompanying music is
worth the ticket price alone.
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