La Scala: “Cease fire”
Life gazette – La Scala launches its appeal for peace in the Middle East with the banner: “Ceasefire”.
A unanimous cry for peace rose from the Teatro alla Scala in Milan last night. Before the last performance of the opera ballet “Madina” by Fabio Vacchi, a massive banner with the words “Cease fire” stood out on the stage, greeted by warm applause from the audience.
The premiere of the last performance of the opera-ballet Madina, the host Dominique Meyer, the protagonists Roberto Bolle and Antonella Albano, the composer Fabio Vacchi, the director Michele Gamba, and a representation of the orchestra, ballet company, and technicians earned the stage before the curtain was raised on the 13-meter banner with the words “Cease fire.”
They came together on stage to ask for “an end to the conflict in Palestine.” The audience stood up and applauded for more than a minute.
Madina’s plot
The choice of the words “Ceasefire” is not accidental. It echoes the central theme of “Madina”, a ballet that tells the story of a Chechen girl who chooses not to detonate the explosive belt she wears on her waist so as not to die and not kill.
It is not the first time La Scala has taken a position on this front. It had already happened on 4 April 2022, when, just over a month after the invasion of Ukraine, the musical director of the theatre Riccardo Chailly conducted the Concert for Peace: the event, the organisers explained on that occasion, went on stage “interpreting a unanimous wish of the orchestra professors, the choir artists and all the workers, of the management of the Teatro alla Scala and maestro Riccardo Chailly, to raise funds to support the population affected by the war events in Ukraine ”.
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