Primo piano ANSA - ANSA.it: Otello apre la stagione della Scala, poi nel 2027 Verdi con regia di Guadagnino
Olivieri confermato per due stagioni alla guida del Corpo ballo
Otello opens the season at La Scala, followed by Verdi in 2027 with a direction by Guadagnino.
Olivieri confirmed for two seasons as head of the Corps de Ballet.
#Otello #LaScala #Verdi #Guadagnino #Olivieri #theCorpsdeBallet
Agi: Mattarella lascia la Scala tra gli applausi dopo la cerimonia per i 150 anni del Corriere della Sera
AGI/Vista - Il Presidente della Repubblica lascia la Scala al termine della cerimonia per i 150 anni del Corriere della Sera tra gli applausi. Quirinale Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
Mattarella leaves La Scala amid applause after the ceremony for the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera.
The President of the Republic leaves the Teatro alla Scala at the end of the ceremony for the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera, amid applause.
Quirinal Source: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
Agi: Mattarella al 150esimo del Corriere della Sera accolto da Cairo e Luciano Fontana alla Scala
AGI/Vista - Il Presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella, è intervenuto, al Teatro alla Scala, all’evento “Corriere 150 anni. La libertà delle idee”, che apre le celebrazioni per i 150 anni del quotidiano fondato a Milano nel 1876 da Eugenio Torelli Viollier. Quirinale Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
Mattarella attends the 150th anniversary celebration of Corriere della Sera, welcomed by Cairo and Luciano Fontana at La Scala.
President Mattarella spoke at the Teatro alla Scala at the “Corriere 150 anni. La libertà delle idee” event, which opens the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Milan-based daily newspaper founded in 1876 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier.
Quirinal Source: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
#Mattarella #150th #Cairo #LucianoFontana #LaScala #Teatro #Corriere150anni #Milan
Agi: Standing ovation per Mattarella al 150esimo del Corriere della Sera alla Scala di Milano
AGI/Vista - Una lunga standing ovation ha accolto il Presidente della Repubblica Mattarella alla cerimonia per i 150 anni del Corriere della Sera alla Scala di Milano. Quirinale Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
Standing ovation for Mattarella at the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera at La Scala in Milan.
A standing ovation greeted Italian President Mattarella at the ceremony for the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera at La Scala in Milan. Quirinal Source: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
#150th #CorrieredellaSera #LaScala #Milan #Italian #Mattarella #QuirinalSource
RaiNews: Il Corriere della Sera compie 150 anni, Mattarella alla Scala lo celebra
Presidenti di Senato e Camera Ignazio La Russa e Lorenzo Fontana, i senatori a vita Liliana Segre e Mario Monti
The Corriere della Sera celebrates its 150th anniversary, Mattarella celebrates it at La Scala.
Senate and Chamber Presidents Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, senators for life Liliana Segre and Mario Monti
#150th #Mattarella #LaScala #Senate #ChamberPresidents #IgnazioLaRussa #LorenzoFontana #LilianaSegre #MarioMonti
Corriere.it - Homepage: I 150 anni del Corriere, oggi il concerto alla Scala di Milano con il presidente Mattarella
Oggi, al Teatro alla Scala di Milano, il Corriere apre le celebrazioni per i suoi 150 anni: all'evento partecipa anche il presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella
The 150th anniversary of Corriere, today’s concert at La Scala in Milan with President Mattarella.
Today, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Corriere opens the celebrations for its 150th anniversary: the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, also attends the event.
#150th #Corriere #LaScala #Milan #Mattarella #Teatro #SergioMattarella
“Traduttore, traditore”*…
Translation is key to communication across cultures– and across time. But as the old Italian adage above suggests, transaction is difficult; indeed, translation is sure, from time to time, to fail. (C.f., e.g., here) The estimable Jonathan Bate shares a “tragic” example…
One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word. In Aristotle’s Poetics, that word is hamartia. It is usually rendered, in classrooms and handbooks, as “tragic flaw,” and on that translation an entire tradition of reading tragedy has been erected. Yet if we return to Aristotle’s Greek and trace the word’s history with some philological care, it becomes clear that this familiar formula rests on a slow but decisive mistranslation—less an error at a single moment than a long cultural drift in which a term meaning “mistake” gradually hardened into a doctrine of moral defect.
In classical Greek, hamartia belongs to the language of action rather than character. Its root sense is concrete and kinetic: to miss one’s mark, as an archer misses the target. By extension, it denotes an error, a misjudgment, a false step—often one made in ignorance of some crucial fact. Aristotle uses the term this way throughout his works, ethical and otherwise. In the Poetics, when he says that the tragic hero falls into misfortune “because of hamartia,” he is careful to exclude two alternatives. The hero does not fall because he is wicked, nor because he is exceptionally virtuous. Tragedy, for Aristotle, does not punish vice or reward goodness; it stages the vulnerability of human action to error within an intelligible but unstable world. The downfall comes about δι’ ἁμαρτίαν—because of an error, not because the hero is “flawed” in a modern psychological or ethical sense…
[Bate locates this reading in the larger corpus of Aristotle’s thinking, then traces the evolution of the reading of hamartia— and of the culture(s) that informed those understandings. He concludes…]
… the history of hamartia traces a remarkable arc: from error in action, to moral fault, to sin, to vice, to psychological flaw. Each step made sense within its own intellectual climate, yet the cumulative effect was to impose on Aristotle a conception of tragedy he would scarcely have recognized. What began as a missed mark became a stain on the soul. And with that shift, tragedy itself was subtly transformed—from a meditation on human fallibility into a lesson on personal failure…
The history of a misreading: “Aristotle and the so-called Tragic Flaw,” from @profbate.bsky.social.
* Old Italian adage: “translator, traitor” (or, “to translate is to betray”) See here and here.
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As we tangle with tragedy, we might recall that it was on this date in 1904 that Giacomo Puccini‘s Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan. The tragic opera (with a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) was based on the 1898 short story “Madame Butterfly” by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll, and on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti. Long’s version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw it in the summer of that year.
The premiere in Milan was a fiasco, beset by several bad staging decisions, from the lack of an intermission during the second act to the device of giving audience plants nightingale whistles to deepen the sense of sunrise in the final scene– which the audience took as a cue to make their own animal noises. Today Madama Butterfly is considered a masterpiece and is the sixth most performed opera in the world.
Original 1904 poster by Adolfo Hohenstein (source) #art #culture #DavidBelasco #Drama #hamartia #history #LaScala #literature #MadamaButterfly #MadameButterfly #opera #Puccini #tragedy #tragicFlaw #translation
La Scala season opens with Russian opera in tribute to composer Shostakovich
* La Scala season opens with Russian opera in tribute to composer Shostakovich Shostakovich opera opens 2025-26 season…
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