Teatro alla Scala
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Nov 2, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
I had no idea.
John BatchelorHOST
In fact, La Scala opens every year on Ambrose's birthday or death date, the Ambrose day on the calendar.
John BatchelorHOST
Which is it, Catherine? It's his feast day.
John BatchelorHOST
It's his feast day.
John BatchelorHOST
Ambrose's feast day is the opening of La Scala.
John BatchelorHOST
We're going to go to Milan and mom shows up.
John BatchelorHOST
The book is Augustine the African.
Sebastian F. SchwarzHOST
This time I want to talk about the preparation of opera singers.
Sebastian F. SchwarzHOST
What does it take to develop a voice capable of meeting the demands of a professional career? And what should a singer know, beyond the notes and the words, when arriving for the rehearsals of a new production? To explore these questions, I've invited two colleagues, voice teacher Sherman Lowe and James Vaughan, principal coach at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Sebastian F. SchwarzHOST
Before bringing in my guests, as usual, there will be our historical overview where we will be looking into how singing changed over the centuries.
Sebastian F. SchwarzHOST
But let's start with some music.
Martina Greňová ŠimkovičováHOST
In 1963, at the age of 24, she joined the Vienna State Opera at the invitation of famous conductor Herbert von Karajan.
Martina Greňová ŠimkovičováHOST
Thanks to her unique coloratura soprano, Lucia Pop starred at the main world opera stages such as La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York or Covent Garden in London.
Martina Greňová ŠimkovičováHOST
She died on the 15th of November 1993 due to brain cancer.
Martina Greňová ŠimkovičováHOST
Well, dear listeners, a very warm goodbye to all of you who were listening on 98.9 FM in Bratislava, 102.4 FM in Seniec, on satellite, shortwave, the internet or podcast applications is wish to you from the sound technician Eva Medelska and your host Martina Šimkovičová.
Ashlee HardgraveHOST
Given that, the only responsible way forward was to postpone, and I'm thankful Minnesota Opera has chosen to protect the people who are most vulnerable in this situation.
Oliver CamachoHOST
The opening night of Faust at Teatro alla Scala was canceled last week due to a strike.
Oliver CamachoHOST
Participants from a number of unions called on La Scala to increase worker pay by 15% and demanded to meet with the board of directors.
Oliver CamachoHOST
Strikes have also been threatened at Venice's La Fenice over general discontent with worker pay in the Italian arts industry.
Ashlee HardgraveHOST
Yet another orchestra has suspended its season due to financial difficulties.
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Ashlee HardgraveHOST
Tell us what you got.
Matt CummingsHOST
So, I mean, Italian musicians being on strike is kind of the default nature of things.
Matt CummingsHOST
So I don't know that there's a ton of newsiness about the La Scala one in particular, but careful listeners may remember that the leadership at Venice has been particularly tumultuous recently.
Jennet IngleHOST
Yeah.
Jennet IngleHOST
as you are like, as an independent artist, as you are negotiating your own contracts, like, Do the venues know this? Is there is there somebody in the Teatro La Scala who is like, OK, so we're going to hire this American and we know he's going to have to pay 30 percent of his paycheck in taxes and therefore we're going to offer this much more? Or are all of the people in the offices also, you know, kind of artistic doofuses like the rest of us? And they're like, well, you know, this number sounds good.
Ben BlissGUEST
I can't say I can speak to exactly the step-by-step process of how an artist's fee is determined and offered by a hiring presenter.
Ben BlissGUEST
You know, it's usually based on your past performance fees, etc.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Byron's life was an opera set upon it.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
As soon as he arrived, he took a box at La Scala, where everyone went to see and be seen.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Maybe people didn't know who Byron was when he first arrived, but the opera was the place where you made yourself known.
Tony RobinsonHOST
The whole of society would be here on a regular basis, and it only took one person to say, oh.
Karita MattilaGUEST
And the most of the years that followed, Diana Malgan, wonderful manager, rest in peace, Diana, you left us far too early.
Karita MattilaGUEST
So most of the starting of years with her, she turned down the offers because I was offered all kinds of crazy things I think that when I sang at La Scala, audition that I was offered, I think, Senta or Aida or something crazy by Mazzonis.
Karita MattilaGUEST
So most of the time my manager had to turn them down.
Karita MattilaGUEST
But how many managers do that? So I think that's what you hinted when you said that there are so many lousy ones.
Suzanne HillHOST
At the height of their fame, the Three Tenors performed a televised concert in 1994 that was watched by a billion people worldwide.
Suzanne HillHOST
Before his success with the three tenors, Jose Carreras already had a successful opera career, performing at all the major opera houses in the world, from the Met to La Scala.
Suzanne HillHOST
He also overcame a leukaemia diagnosis in the 1980s and established the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation to find a cure.
Suzanne HillHOST
Well, later this year, Jose Carreras will turn 80.
speaker_0HOST
Real name, Stanka Nikolova Stoyanova.
speaker_0HOST
Bulgarian-born operatic mezzo-soprano who spent decades as a star of Italy's premier opera houses, had huge performances at La Scala in Milan, Italy.
speaker_0HOST
Adolph Green passed away in 2002 at the age of 87 from natural causes.
speaker_0HOST
A Broadway lyricist and playwright who spent six decades in a partnership with Betty Comden co-wrote the book and lyrics for musical masterpieces like Singing in the Rain, On the Town, and The Will Rogers Follies.
Patrick SummersGUEST
And Verdi spent the end of his life endowing every charity in his native counties around Parma.
Patrick SummersGUEST
and endowing a retirement home for musicians in Milan that is still open, the Casa di Riposo near La Scala in Milan.
Patrick SummersGUEST
So, we're talking about two very different approaches to life.
Patrick SummersGUEST
I think it's difficult for us to imagine now what Verdi stood for in the eyes of his fellow Italians.
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