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Set design for Act II of Puccini's Tosca (Palazzo Farnese) in 1900 by German advertiser, costume designer, illustrator, painter and constume designer Adolf Hohenstein (1854-1928) It is the date of the debut of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca on a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica in what was then called the Teatro Costanzi and now is part of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. As a matter of fact, Tosca is more than an important opera of the last century.ġ4 January 1900 is considered as a turning point in Italian music - the true beginning of twentieth century music and especially of the Italian-style music drama. On 7 December 2019, La Scala's 2019-2020 opera and ballet season was inaugurated with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca as part of a program designed by its musical director Riccardo Chailly to re-evaluate philological versions of Italian operas from the first decades of the twentieth century. Live in HD at the inauguration of La Scala's Several retired singers, dancers and musician's still live there.A Real Triumph GIUSEPPE PENNISI experiences Puccini's 'Tosca',

Then we can see Giuseppe Verdi's foundation "House of the artists" (car or subway needed), where Giuseppe Verdi and his second wife, the soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, are buried. We prosecute to via Durini, to see Toscanini's milanese residence (from outside). Then we walk to the Grand Hotel et de Milan, were Giuseppe Verdi was used to live when he was in Milan ther he died in 1901. Mozart was composing the opera "Ascanio in Alba" in Milan, before La Scala was built.Īlso Verdi's Requiem was first played in San Marco church. We can walk to the close lying San Marco church, where the young Mozart played the organ in 1771. Here we can see marble busts, important pieces and documents of history of western theatre. We can also visit La Scala Opera House adjacent museum, created in 1913. It has over 2000 seats, but it is always sold out. We can stand in a box and see it's horse-shoe shape with four levels of boxes and two galleries, it's elegant shining decorations in neo-classical style. Our guided tour of La Scala Opera House includes a visit to the theatre hall.

La Scala Opera House was built in 1778 on the location of the ancient church of Santa Maria della Scala (hence the name), built there in 1381 by Regina della Scala on her wedding with the lord of Milan, Bernabò Visconti.

None minor than Puccini in 1904 experienced this attitude, during Madama Butterfly's world premier at La Scala: it was a tremendous 'fiasco' and Puccini ordered not to play Madama Butterfly again in Milan.