Snow at La Scala (colour litho)

Snow at La Scala. The avalanche scene in the last act of Catalani's Wally, with which the winter opera season was inaugurated at La Scala, turned out for the brilliance of the set designers and the skill of the workers of a impressive verism. It really seemed that on the stage of the most famous theater in the world a huge mass of snow was overthrown and the effects obtained undoubtedly constitute a record in the field of stage realization. The avalanche took place with a kind of giant wheel covered in white whose pivot ran on an inclined track. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 20 December 1953.