Teatro Alla Scala: The Temple of Wonders (2015)

"Teatro alla Scala. The Temple of Wonders is a filmic event dedicated to one of the most exclusive temples of music and world spectacle, a place where art is creating itself, representing itself, living itself. Inaugurated in 1778, the Teatro alla Scala of Milan is the place where the tradition of the great Italian opera is born. The emotions absorbed by the velvet curtains, by the wood of the stage, by the armchairs in front of the orchestra are still alive today and surface every night at the very moment when the light is dimmed, the audience stops chatting and the show begins. Accompanied by the narrative voice of Sandro Lombardi, the video camera travels down the corridors and make us breath 237 years of history: a majestic succession of discoveries and revelations will be a delight for the spectator. It's the story of the only theatre of the world that has captured and tied inextricably to itself the biggest names of the musical sector. Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Arturo Toscanini, Maria Callas, Luchino Visconti have founded the myth of a place that still today provokes a sense of sacredness, passed on over the years by Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Giorgio Strehler, Riccardo Muti, Franco Zeffirelli, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardi Chailly, Patrice Chéreau.