More hilarity from Scala's unions: they keep protesting the cost cutting measures that were just passed by the House and will be soon reviewed by the Senate, and they decided to sink tomorrow night's performance of Faust, directed by mad genius Eimuntas Nekrosius and conducted by Stephane Deneve. Opera Chic at this point feels lucky that she witnessed the premiere, despite the mutiny -- even if the chorus was on stage in street clothes and refused to follow Nekrosius's directions and just stood there, singing, and the orchestra was dressed in street clothes, too. Because the second performance was canceled, the third was canceled, too, the fourth is not going to happen either tomorrow night, and the future is just a big fat unionized question mark. So at least we saw half-a$$ed Nekrosius, that it's better than no Nekrosius at all.
In the video below, la Scala workers and orchestra protest in front of Milan's city hall, right across the street from la Scala.
Fight the powah!