La Scala and All That... Listen to Lirico Spinto on France Musique !

Screen captures during the live Arte broadcast. I enjoyed Diana Damrau 's Violetta very much. Hers was top class and moving, different from the openly dramatic Traviatas of the past apart from Natalie Dessay's stunning one in Aix.

Stephane Grant is a wonderful opera specialist and opera lover who knows his classics .
Verdi is at the center of the debate of course with what happened lately for the last Traviata opening night at La Scala and the traditional booing which  wide opens the memory-door of this prestigious opera house and its great singers who had the privilege to be booed and just withstood the blame to transform it into a greater success like Maria Callas did when she returned to La scala.
Piort Beczala got really offended and reacted too fast after the disgraceful boos but still he was not perfect either... It is part of the game and may be does good to one's ego....
What was not too nice on his part was to blame the entire Italian people and only considered the country for a nice holidaying spot for  jet-set opera singers!(That is my reaction to what he published, it only shows the process of misjudging people: from a rather rude and traditional behaviour to another rude answer and on top of it my reaction, finding the tenor not being a nice person and yet I have never had the chance to see him live but I did not like his rendition on tv, so this is a nasty feeling of being caught in a spiral of misunderstanding... in politics it could end in wars...)
What is marvellous is this programme on France Musique:

Part  ILirico Spinto
Part II Lirico Spinto
And it goes without saying that VIVA VERDI and LA SCALA, I want to go there one day....nonetheless ! La Scala