La Scala is (almost) in Tallinn
Major opera night to bring the opening performance of the new season of La Scala to the Estonian public.
On December 7, the Nokia Concert Hall will host a live broadcast of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, the opening performance of the new season of the world-famous opera house La Scala. Sale of tickets to the opera season’s premiere event will start on Friday, August 28.
Priit Mikk, producer of BDG Music, the organizer of the opera night, said that the state-of-the art technology of the would-be Nokia Concert Hall will ensure a cultural experience worthy of the world’s best-known opera house and impressive high-tech quality.
“The grand opening of the La Scala opera season is a major event of Europe’s cultural circles and the first time that our opera friends are able to attend it without leaving Tallinn,” said Mikk, according to whom the organizers attempt to give the public not only a top opera experience, but also create a festive atmosphere worthy of an opening night. The direct broadcast will be opened by Arne Mikk who has staged Carmen in National Opera Estonia and is a frequent visitor in La Scala. The opera night will be given more dazzle by Martell cognac as a sponsor.
With its more than 200-year-history and unique acoustics, the fabulous Opera Theatre La Scala or Teatro alla Scala in Milan is one of the most famous opera theaters in the world and one of the largest opera house in Europe, accommodating up to 2000 people. La Scala’s season traditionally opens on December 7, Saint Ambrose’s Day, the patron saint of Milan.
The opera nights in Nokia Concert Hall (to be held at least once a month from 2010) will bring to the local public in direct broadcasts several other world-famous operas from the repertoire of Europe’s leading opera houses. Nokia Concert Hall will host opera nights in cooperation of BDG Music and Emerging Pictures, a distribution company.
“We are cooperating with tens of concert halls, but Nokia Concert Hall is by far the best we have seen so far and excellent for enjoying the best opera,” Giovanni Cozzi, Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, said in praise of Nokia Concert Hall, adding that Emerging Pictures was distributing performances of the world’s top theatres, major concerts and independent films in high definition quality on large screens in several locations all over US, Europe and Australia.
Tickets to Carmen in Nokia Concert Hall will cost 250 EEK and you can buy them online HERE
La Scala’s opening act, Carmen, will feature Anita Rachvelishvili as Carmen, Jonas Kaufmann as Don José, Erwin Schrott as Escamillo and Adriana Damato as Micaëla. Opera will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Nokia Concert Hall is located in Solaris, a culture and leisure centre that will, among others, include a multiplex cinema, an arts film centre, several cafes, restaurants and stores. Solaris Centre and Nokia Concert Hall will be hosting the Black Nights Film Festival and Vanemuine musicals.
The first Vanemuine musical – Evita – will be staged in the concert hall on November 27, 2009. Of major events scheduled for 2010, Nokia Concert Hall will house the highlight of the European film industry – European Film Academy Awards – and a concert of New York Symphony Orchestra. There are advance bookings for various concert, theatrical performances and conferences for 2010-2012.
