Here, with the benefit of La Scala's superb acoustics, he conjures the opera house of one's dreams.
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What is on at La Scala used to be a matter of huge interest among all Milanese.
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In 1926, Arturo Toscanini conducted the first performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" at La Scala, Milan.
The days when La Scala opera stars like Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano were international celebrities have passed.
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Now that would merit a chorus from a top tenor at La Scala!
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The house also has designed costumes for a production of "Lucia di Lammermoor" at La Scala starring Luciano Pavarotti and Luciana Serra.
Imagine having the same acoustics and surround-sound of Carnegie Hall, the Met, La Scala, Covent Garden all in your own living room.
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She had come to the attention of the Met's international scouts in Milan, where she has been singing and studying at La Scala.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi caused a furore last month by claiming that La Scala had 1, 000 full-time employees and could easily sack half of them.
"Dialogues, " first performed at La Scala in 1957, is one of a handful of post-1950 operas that have found a permanent place in the repertory.
During his career, Sawallisch also conducted at the Bayreuth Festival, La Scala in Milan and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and Tokyo's NHK Orchestra.
From there, it was on to La Scala's young-artists program, where she became fluent in Italian within six months and is focusing on Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.
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La Scala is Chinese Estates' only residential development in Macau.
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In 1957, he made his debut at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, where much later in 1993 he became the first non-Italian to be awarded the Golden Baton.
The court ruling has put into question the status of Chinese Estates apartment development called La Scala, with Macau lawyers earlier saying that the government could confiscate the site because the sale process was conducted illegally.
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Over the following years Mr Kaplan was invited to conduct flagship ensembles at La Scala in Milan, in Munich and Vienna, to open the prestigious Salzburg festival and to give the work its Chinese premiere in Beijing.
He said it was no longer true that La Scala got the lion's share of the government fund for the performing arts, which has to be shared out among all 13 of Italy's opera houses - not to mention the crisis-ridden film industry and the nation's main orchestras.
If you tire of Thai fire and spice, tuck into meticulously prepared Italian classics such as veal carpaccio, fillet of baccala (cod), or dry aged steaks from the open kitchen at La Scala, located on the lush, tranquil grounds of the Sukhothai Bangkok hotel on Sathorn Road.
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