Vale…. La Scala chorus master retires at 80
NewsTonight’s Marriage of Figaro is the last La Scala performance of chorus master Bruno Casoni.
He has been with the company for 38 years, and he’s about to turn 80.
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At the Bayern Munich versus Valencia Champions League final in Milan in 2001 the La Scala Chorus Sang my anthem live, on the Pitch – wonderfully. But before that they had performed ‘Va Pensiero’, unaccompanied. 80,000 baying fans were reduced to appreciative silence as Maestro Casoni, cool as a cucumber, conducted. A memorable night.