La Scala to sing in department store
mainThe visiting Italian company is giving an ad hoc performance at 2pm today in Moscow’s GUM store.
Not a bad idea, since the former shopping preserve of Soviet nomenklatura wives closely resembles one of Franco Zeffirelli’s sets at La Scala.
I happened to read this while in a cafe around the corner from GUM, hurried over and got there for 2, but there are no signs of a performance in the store – just an exhibition of photographs and a stall selling merchandise…..
Hard to know which inefficiency to blame – Russian or Italian.