Painted attack on La Scala Opera by climate activists

Climate activists, who have focused on famous artworks and exhibitions around the world and in Italy in recent months, staged their latest action at the world-famous La Scala Opera House, which opens the season tonight.

A group of activists, known as “The Last Generation (Ultima Generazione)”, was seen throwing paint of different colors in front of the opera house in the early hours of the morning, damaging the panels and doors of the building.

Some activists also wrote “The Last Generation: No Gas, No Coal” at the opera house.

Attilio Fontana, head of the Lombardy Regional Government, to which the city of Milan is affiliated, called the action by climate activists “stupid and illogical.”

Climate activists poured 8 kilograms of flour into the car, which was at the exhibition of American artist Andy Warhol in Milan, and threw vegetable puree at the painting “The Sower” by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, which was on display in Rome, Norway. “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer in the Netherlands, “Les Mueles” (The Haystacks) by the French painter Claude Monet in Germany, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’ in Spain. paintings of “La maja desnuda” (Naked Maya) and “La maja vestida” (Clothed Maya).

On the other hand, it was reported in the press that President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Union (EU) Commission Ursula von der Leyen will attend the gala evening at La Scala Opera, which will open the season with the opera “ Boris Godunov” composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Anti-government protests are expected outside the opera before the show. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)