I loved my visit to La Scala. The opera house was everything you would expect--lots of pomp and circumstance (the ushers wore white gloves and big "La Scala" medallions), wonderful performances, and of course the stunning opera house itself. But like a lot of European opera houses, there is no pretense of a seat equaling a view. Many seats are... more

We have been trying to go La Scala for several years, but whenever we found an opera or a ballet for which we would dearly have loved to have bough tickets, it was always of course sold out. Frankly I had given up my dream of going there. But then to my astonishment I managed to get two really good... more

We ordered expensive box seat tickets through La Scala and were five tiers up in the third box from the stage, directly over the orchestra. The sound was great but the sight lines to the stage were terrible. Each box has a foot wide, velvet covered ledge projecting from the railing in front of the box. The ledge effectively blocked... more

Stunning opera house in the classic European style. My partner and I went for his 40th so splurged on a box. We had the expensive tickets, which gave us the front seats, but there were two people who had independently bought tickets, which while they were in the box, only entitled them to stoolds at the back. They had to... more

La Scala c'est un mythe où se cotoient le pire et le meilleur. Il y a les spectacles "classiques" type... more