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Article: La Scala Unveils New Season, Theater
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- July 18, 2002
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MILAN, Italy (AP) _ La Scala has chosen for next season to offer an
untraditional program in an untraditional place, a new theater serving
as temporary home while the opera house's venerable temple of song
is renovated.
The 2002-2003 season at the newly built Arcimboldi theater will feature
musicals, jazz concerts and a number of new and seldom-performed opera
titles, La Scala officials said Thursday.
"Iphigenie en Aulide," a less than popular opera by Christoph Gluck,
will inaugurate the season for Italy's most renowned opera theater
on Dec. 7, the feast day of Milan's patron saint, Ambrose.
La Scala artistic director Paolo Arca described the new program as ...