Colleen Barry at the AP reports from the press conference that Lissner MC'd at Teatro alla Scala yesterday morning, where he stated that 2012 will be a tough year. Despite an increase in attendance, La Scala expects a dip in public and private funding this year while running on a budget of 110 million euro. Milan's opera house has been finishing mainly in the black since Lissner's been GM since 2005.
Nice to see the stats on Ed Gardner's insanely-excellent Death in Venice from last March:
The Milan opera house hit its all-time record box office for a single performance: euro281,154 ($365,584) for "Death in Venice" on March 19, [2011]. The nightly box office usually runs around euro250,000, depending on the performance.
Maybe it's Gardner's ~RPattz Effect~ that brought the Twilight fans to La Scala.
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