Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks, simply days after the famed Milan theater staged its high-profile opera season opener with a full-capacity viewers.
At the least one of many 4 ballerinas who examined constructive for COVID-19 additionally appeared within the Dec. 7 premiere of the opera Macbeth.
Ten different individuals linked to the outbreak examined constructive for the virus, all of them theater assist personnel, together with somebody who labored within the hairdressing division, the theater mentioned in an announcement.
Italian well being authorities positioned a number of different individuals in quarantine as a result of they have been in shut contact with these confirmed contaminated, La Scala mentioned.
La Scala Theatre Ballet was scheduled to carry out La Bayadere to open its season on Dec. 15. The efficiency has been pushed again till Dec. 21.
The nineteenth century ballet is predicated on a rating by Ludwig Minkus and choreography that Rudolf Nureyev debuted with the Paris Opera ballet in 1992. La Scala’s efficiency of the ballet marks the primary time the Nureyev Basis has allowed one other firm to carry out it.
The opening of La Scala’s opera season is taken into account a spotlight of Italy’s cultural calendar and took on added glitter this yr after the 2020 version was televised as a result of pandemic.
Whereas the Dec. 7 efficiency formally launched La Scala’s opera season, the theater staged pre-season operas, ballets and different occasions for a number of months, one of many few European homes to renew common, full-capacity performances.
Italy, like different nations in Europe, is seeing a rise in new coronavirus instances as chilly climate units in. The nation reported 20,000 new instances Friday.
Nonetheless, the most recent wave thus far is extra contained in Italy than in different European nations, and the nation’s each day dying toll has usually stayed under 100 for months.
Officers credit score 85% of Italy’s inhabitants over age 12 being totally vaccinated, in addition to continued masks mandates and well being cross necessities to entry workplaces, eating places, museums and theaters.