At the Blue Note jazz club four evenings with Ray Gelato's band

While 'Twilight of the Gods' is being staged, an exhibition entitled 'The Ring Revolution - Visconti Ronconi Chéreau', curated by Giovanni Agosti and with set design by Margherita Palli, can be visited at the Museo del Teatro alla Scala until 3 May. The exhibition is dedicated to Pier Luigi Pizzi, the set designer of "La Walkiria" and "Siegfried" in Luca Ronconi's La Scala production. During the 1970s, the prevailing interpretation of the Ring (Wagner's tetralogy of the Ring of the Nibelung) underwent a radical mutation: from the predominantly abstract and symbolic approach staged at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, with Wieland Wagner's stage directions, to a sociological and political reading. In the exhibition, we will be able to follow the decisive interpretative path of the Ring, which so profoundly marked its interpretation in the decades to come. In 1974, La Scala entrusted the project for a new Ring to Luca Ronconi, who collaborated with set designer Pier Luigi Pizzi; "Walkiria" was staged, liberating and relocating that opera in the bourgeois context that had produced it. Siegfried' was also staged; but the La Scala project was interrupted by the departure of director Wolfgang Sawallisch. We then encounter the Wilhelmine setting and the critique of capitalism in Patrice Chéreau's famous 1976 Bayreuth staging under the baton of Pierre Boulez.

In the meantime, we can watch on La ScalaTv 'L' Oro del Reno', the first of the four 'days' of Wagner's Tetralogy, staged in the 2023-24 season.

La Scala had first thought of Visconti to direct the Ring; a project that fell through due to the director's illness. On 16 March at 6.00 p.m. there will be a screening at La Scala of Visconti's film "Ludwig" (fully restored version), also dedicated to Wagner's adventures, the last chapter of the "German trilogy" (with "La caduta degli dèi" and "Morte a Venezia"), released in 1973. Free admission with compulsory booking at www.teatroallascala.org.