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...with the two Simons' TV franchises: Fuller's American Idol and Cowell's soon-to-be-arriving X Factor, which is already a big hit in Britain. Among Universal's television projects in Britain is a show called Popstar to Operastar, which features Meatloaf as a judge of La Scala wannabes. And on the theater front, Universal is backing Judy Craymer, the producer of the stage and film musical Mamma Mia!, in her efforts to create a musical about the Spice Girls called Viva Forever...
...Alessandro Rosso, 50, hotelier At aperitivo hour, I love to wander through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II at the Piazza del Duomo. It's a fairytale setting for the free classical piano recital held there every night. A few minutes' walk away, next door to La Scala, is my favorite restaurant, Il Marchesino, tel: (39-02) 7209 4338. Try deep-fried sole with tempura vegetables in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, or have oysters and champagne as a pre-theater snack. Afterward, a ballet at La Scala, tel: (39-02) 7200 3744, is a magical experience. Then I'd walk...
...Known as "La Diva Turca" throughout her more than 70 roles at Italy's La Scala opera house, Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer won a reputation for both her beautiful voice and her imperious personality. Critics were wowed by her inspired performances in everything from Madame Butterfly to Don Giovanni. Offstage, Gencer was unabashed about her domineering manner, explaining simply, "I say what I think...
When McGregor started work on Chroma in 2006, he had just finished directing Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas at La Scala in Milan. At the same time, New York choreographer Mark Morris had been directing another Purcell opera at London's Coliseum Theatre. Commissions like these illustrate the regard in which the world's top choreographers are held. Until very recently, choreographers were subcontracted to set the steps of the ballets that were traditionally inserted into operas, but never consulted as to wider direction. "The thinking had already been done," says McGregor. "You were just there...
OPERA IN MILAN One of the world's most renowned conductors comes to the world's most famous opera house when Daniel Barenboim leads the orchestra in a new production of Prokofiev's The Gambler at La Scala from June 16 to June 30. It starts with Alexei (played by Ukrainian Misha Didyk, hailed as "one of opera's most exciting young lyric tenors" by the BBC) gambling away diamonds belonging to his love Pauline (Latvian rising star Kristina Opolais), and things get magnificently tragic from there. www.teatroallascala.org by Mimi Murphy...