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In Italy, a performance of "La Bohème" at the Puccini Festival turns into a political controversy odnako.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from odnako.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Veteran Italian Maestro Alberto Veronesi protested what he believed was the politicization of the La Bohème production that he was set to conduct. In accordance to the opera's tradition of backstage melodrama, the situation only escalated from there.
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Tears of joy
By AFP Published: May 11, 2021 05:58 PM
Conductor Alberto Veronesi plays the piano while opera singer Vitaliy Kovalchuk sings La Boheme in front of the Teatro alla Scala on April 20 in Milan to protest against the continued closure of theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: AFPMilan's mythical La Scala opera house erupted into huge applause on Monday to hail a stirring performance at its triumphant reopening after six months of silence imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The performance came a day before the 75th anniversary of a historic concert in 1946 that celebrated the postwar reopening of La Scala which had been bombed three years earlier and rebuilt.