OPERA DANCE

Opera Dance is a festive occasion that Milan for La Scala opens with a salute to the evening's guest of honor, Alessandra Ferri, star of Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works. The pieces that follow the greeting are a flight through ballet and dance styles starring the Teatro alla Scala principal dancers and students of the Scuola di Ballo dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala Ballet School. 

Interventions on stage:

• Federico Bonelli - Principal Dancer
• Margot De Mazzeri - Milan adviser for La Scala Head of Ballet
• Alessandra Ferri - Étoile
• Frédéric Olivieri - Director of the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Corps (2017-2019)
• Alexander Pereira - Superintendent of the Teatro alla Scala (2014-2019)

Excerpts danced in the video:

Les Sylphides by Mikhail Fokine Vittoria Valerio, Soloist Teatro alla Scala and Claudio Coviello, First Dancer Teatro alla Scala

Carmen by Roland Petit Nicoletta Manni, Prima ballerina Teatro alla Scala and Timofej Andraijashenko, prima ballerina Teatro alla Scala

Proceeds from the evening went to support Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works production