The famous musical 'A Chorus Line' is in London

In London for a month, one of the musicals that innovated a lot, staying on stage for fifteen years, is staged: never before has a show been seen without stars, without scenes, without a catchy title. Just the audition, stark naked. A complete change of atmosphere in Trieste, where we have the infrequent opportunity to see one of the famous operettas. While in Milan, the basilicas resound with ancient music throughout August.

From 31 July to 25 August at Sadler's Wells 'Chorus Line', the show that in 1975 marked a major breakthrough in Broadway musicals, conceived, directed and choreographed by 30-year-old Michael Bennett, music by his contemporary Marvin Hamlisch (Oscar winner for 'The Way We Were' and 'The Sting'), produced Off Broadway by a legend like Joe Papp. "One! Singular sensation", they sing in the final number as they await the star's entrance: fifteen years of Broadway performances, then films with Michael Douglas. Bennett had previously choreographed musicals such as 'Promises Promises' (music by Bacharach), 'Follies' and 'Company' (both by Sondheim). We follow these dancers through the selection - from seventeen to eight, we get to know them, their stories, torments, dreams.

On 8-10-11 August at the Verdi Theatre there is a good opportunity to see 'La Contessa Maritza', one of the greatest works by Emmerich Kálmán, the greatest - together with Lehár - author of operettas in the early 20th century. Since its debut in 1924, 'La Contessa Maritza' immediately won the favour of audiences from Europe to Broadway, thanks to Kálmán's elegant Danubian synthesis of Viennese musical culture and the Hungarian Gypsy tradition. Scarcely performed in Italy, it frequently appears on Slavic, Russian, and German stages. In the title role the Serbian soprano Ana Petricevic, who grew up with Raina Kabaivanska.

On the 30th at the Basilica of S. Simpliciano, an organ concert by Arvid Gast, a leading figure in the interpretation of German Baroque organ music, with a programme dedicated to the work of Bach and his influence on Northern European musicians. For the Milano Arte Musica festival, which offers a series of concerts of Baroque and Renaissance music in the city's most evocative locations during the summer months. The next concert will be on the 15th, at 4.30 pm in San Pietro in Gessate, with an all-female Polish ensemble: the Giardino di Delizie. With the programme 'Alla Polonese', the ensemble looks at Polish culture through the eyes of European composers who lived, worked and travelled there between the 17th and 18th centuries. The festival continues until 29 August.