What was name of the premiere performance in the Italian opera house where Jussi Bjorling sometimes performed?
La Scala La Scala (] ; abbreviation in Italian language for the official name Teatro alla Scala ] ) is an opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the "Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala " (New Royal-Ducal Theatre alla Scala). The premiere performance was Antonio Salieri's "Europa riconosciuta".
Melodramma Melodramma (plural: "melodrammi") is a 17th-century Italian term for a text to be set as an opera, or the opera itself. In the 19th-century, it was used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early Italian libretto, e.g., "Rigoletto" and "Un ballo in maschera". Characteristic are the influence of French bourgeois drama, female instead of male protagonists, and the practice of opening the action with a chorus.