"L'elisir d'amore" at Milan airport
There was already opera in Zurich's main railway station in 2008, with a "Traviata" accompanied by television multimedia. The director of La Scala, Alexander Pereira, now wants to go one better and stage a similar opera at Malpensa Airport in Milan.
The opera "L'elisir d'amore" by Gaetano Donizetti is planned for September 2015. Pereira announced this on Monday at the inauguration of the airport's new premises, writes the Luxembourg trade magazine Pizzicato. Scenes from the Donizetti opera are to be performed in episodes in various areas of the airport; the entire opera is to be broadcast live on television, just as in Zurich.
Swiss television has staged a total of three such productions: After "La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof" in Zurich and "La Bohème im Hochhaus" in Bern, it presented "Aida am Rhein" in Basel. "La Bohème im Hochhaus" was awarded the prestigious Golden Rose television prize.
