Millennials have been subsequently accused of killing avocado, cheese, homeownership, marriage, and the retail industry. Is opera next?
concert. My parents met as two self-starting young professionals in Los Angeles in the ’90s; both had been going to the opera as a way to meet people, despite not growing up attending themselves.
The world’s opera community is reckoning with this future. I was in Milan for a gala concert at the Teatro alla Scala, where many of Rolex's partners and Testimonees—leading artists with whom the company has long-term relationships—had been brought together to raise funds in support of the educational arm of the Teatro alla Scala Academy.
La Scala faces a piazza in central Milan, not far from the Duomo. When it was nearly time to open the theater doors for the concert, the late June sun had gone down enough that the men in their suit jackets and women in sleeved dresses waiting to enter were comfortable, if eager to get in. The La Scala ushers wear heavy pendants on chains over their uniforms that make them easy to spot.
Dudamel, the Venezuelan conductor who also directs the Los Angeles Philharmonic, came up in El Sistema, the famed publicly funded music education program founded by José Antonio Abreu. Dudamel is a kind of rock star of the classical world, known also for performing with pop stars and conducting film soundtracks. “Art has to be embraced with all kinds of art,” in his words.
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