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...April to September; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Gala Fracci’, Teatro alla Scala The Scala Ballet’s tribute to the late Italian prima ballerina Carla Fracci....
...“He does have to thread a needle,” said Dante Scala, a political-science professor at the University of New Hampshire....
...Marina, who is married to a former first dancer of Milan’s La Scala and built a reputation as a fierce negotiator, says she has learnt business at her father’s side for decades....
...This was good news for Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman as Minnie, who replaced her compatriot Eva-Maria Westbroek at short notice and possesses half her vocal power....
...Barbara Frittoli’s Donna Elvira, a thoroughly mixed-up modern Ms, sounded under-projected....
...Barbara Frittoli’s Angelica suggested that, for all her eloquent musicianship, hers is not a Puccini voice: “Senza Mamma” lacked bloom....
...La Scala in Milan and the San Francisco opera have similar schemes. The UK’s opera houses are catching up....
...My Spanish friend Barbara delegated me to collect the bread, coca (a delicious Catalan variant on pizza) and two dozen eggs from the bread lady who arrived with her van some time around the middle of the...
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