Overview
- The interruption was announced after the second interval during Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
- Artistic director Paolo Gavazzeni informed the audience that the performance could not continue.
- The theater's medical guard intervened during a break, and an ambulance with a medical car transported Chailly to hospital.
- No details on the conductor's condition were available late Wednesday, and La Scala said further information will follow.
- The audience was sent home after the announcement, following an evening that had already seen an unusually long first interval.