Teatro alla Scala

Opera House Opened In 1778, Site Of The Premieres Of Nabucco, Otello, Falstaff, Madama Butterfly And Turandot, Rebuilt After Bombing And Reopened In 1946 · Milan, Lombardy

The opera house other opera houses are measured against, opened in 1778 on the site of a church whose name it kept, and the place where Nabucco, Otello, Falstaff, Madama Butterfly and Turandot were all first performed. The auditorium is a horseshoe of six tiers in red and gold seating about two thousand, and the acoustic is the point: it was built before anybody could model such a thing and it works anyway. Above the boxes is the loggione, the cheap gallery, occupied by an audience that has booed singers off this stage and is the reason performers dread the house. The season opens every year on 7 December, the feast of Milan's patron saint, and that night is a national television event. A museum next door shows instruments, costumes and Verdi's own things, and its ticket usually includes a look into the auditorium from a box when nobody is rehearsing, which is decided on the day and is the commonest disappointment here.

Via Filodrammatici 2, Milan, Lombardy, 20121, Italy

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The structure: the Museo Teatrale opens daily with a last admission before closing and a short closure on a small number of holidays. THE AUDITORIUM VIEW INCLUDED WITH THAT TICKET IS NOT GUARANTEED and is withdrawn without notice when a rehearsal is running. Performances run through a season from 7 December to the following summer, starting in the evening and finishing late, with matinees on some days. The box office keeps its own hours. Confirm the rehearsal situation on the day.

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