La Scala delays ballet season opener due to virus outbreak
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Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks
ROME -- Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks, just days after the famed Milan theater staged its high-profile opera season opener with a full-capacity audience.
At least one of the four ballerinas who tested positive for COVID-19 also appeared in the Dec. 7 premiere of the opera “Macbeth.”
Ten other people linked to the outbreak tested positive for the virus, all of them theater support personnel, including someone who worked in the hairdressing department, the theater said in a statement.
Italian health authorities placed a number of other people in quarantine because they were in close contact with those confirmed infected, La Scala said.
