30 Dec 2006

Opera as you've never seen it: La Scala cancels controversial 'Candide'

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article2112576.ece

By Peter Popham [The Independent, 30 December 2006]

La Scala, Italy's most famous opera house, is in the news again after the cancellation of a production of Voltaire's Candide that is drawing rave reviews in Paris. The show was to open in June.