Performances
Opera
L'opera seria
Florian Leopold Gassmann
From 29 March to 9 April 2025
| 3 hours and 25 minutes circa intermissions included | |
Commedia per musica Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi Teatro alla Scala Orchestra on historical instruments and Les Talens Lyriques Teatro alla Scala New Production in co-production with MusikTheater an der Wien
Ph. Christophe Rousset ©Eric Larrayadieu | |
| Performance in Live Streaming |
In live streaming on LaScalaTv, 3 April 2025 from 19.15 CEST
After the live, the show will be available on demand until 10 April 2025.
| Conductor | CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET |
|---|---|
| Staging and costumes | LAURENT PELLY |
| Sets | MASSIMO TRONCANETTI |
| Lights | MARCO GIUSTI |
| Choreography | LIONEL HOCHE |
Cast
| Fallito | Pietro Spagnoli |
| Delirio | Mattia Olivieri |
| Sospiro | Giovanni Sala |
| Ritornello | Josh Lovell |
| Stonatrilla | Julie Fuchs |
| Smorfiosa | Andrea Carroll |
| Porporina | Serena Gamberoni |
| Passagallo | Alessio Arduini |
| Bragherona | Alberto Allegrezza |
| Befana | Lawrence Zazzo |
| Caverna | Filippo Mineccia |
| Ballerina | María Martín Campos* |
| Coro di ballerini (soprano) | María Martín Campos* |
| Coro di ballerini (mezzosoprano) | Dilan Şaka* |
| Coro di ballerini (tenore) | Haiyang Guo* |
| Coro di ballerini (basso) | Xhieldo Hyseni* |
*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
In brief
La Scala has recently undertaken the systematic rediscovery of the Italian roots of melodrama. After looking to Venice (La Calisto by Cavalli and L’Orontea by Cesti) and Naples (Vinci’s Li zite ’ngalera), in 2025 the theatre presents an encounter of one of Italy’s premier poets, Ranieri de’ Calzabigi, and a Bohemian who made Vienna his second home, Florian Leopold Gassmann, court composer for Joseph II and Antonio Salieri’s teacher. The latter’s Opera seria, presented in Vienna in 1769 and here conducted by Christophe Rousset in a new production by Laurent Pelly with a stellar cast of young talents, is an irresistible satire of the theatre world that aptly conveys the koinè of the Gluckian reform, in which librettist Calzabigi figured prominently.
3 hours and 25 minutes circa intermissions includedFIRST ACT 55’
Intermission
25’
SECOND ACT 65’
Intermission
25’
THIRD ACT 35’
End
LaScalaTV
The performance of 3 April 2025 will be live streamed on LaScalaTv. The shots may incidentally frame the audience (in whole or in part).
The performances 29 March and 1 April will be audio-visually recorded. The shots may incidentally frame the audience (in whole or in part). For more information on the processing of audience personal data, click here.
After the live, the show will be available on demand until 10 March 2025.
On Radio
RADIO BROADCASTINGS
- Live – Rai Radio 3 (Italy), 29 March 2025
- Euroradio Live Circuit (Deferred):
Spain (12 April 2025), Portogallo (27 April 2025), Sweden (tbd), Serbia (Live on 29 March), Bulgaria (tbd), Belgium (26 April 2025), Slovenia (10 May 2025), Latvia (tbd), Croatia (10 May 2025), Germany (12 April 2025), France (12 April 2025)
