Teatro alla Scala
In Teatro alla Scala once stood Milan’s leading stage for opera and ballet, built with neoclassical intent under architect Giuseppe Piermarini and inaugurated on 3 August 1778. When it opened, it was officially known as il Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala—“the New Royal Ducal Theatre at the Scala”—after a Scala that had previously been a church. The house’s first curtain rose on Antonio Salieri’s *Europa riconosciuta*, linking La Scala from its beginning to the great court-era traditions of Italian music. Though it became a magnet for Italy’s greatest operatic artists and performers from around the world, this theatre’s physical life ended after a fire destroyed it. Whatever stands on the site today, the cultural structure built around La Scala endures: its institutions, from the La Scala Theatre Chorus and Orchestra to the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, grew out of the same mission formed in 1778.
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