- A few weeks ago, activists dropped eight kilos of flour on a car designed by Andy Warhol.

Facade of La Scala in Milan. / Pixabay

A group of environmentalists throw paint against La Scala in Milan on the day of the "prima"

A group of people has thrown white paint on the facade of the La Scala Theater in Milan (north) on the day of the "prima" (in which its lyrical season opens), with many well-known faces of culture and institutions Italian and European among the spectators, in what appears to be an act of environmental vindication.

Later, according to the Italian media, the Police arrested five of the people who threw the painting and who carried signs that read: "Last generation, no gas, and no coal."

They immediately began cleaning the façade so that everything is clean for this afternoon at 6:00 p.m. local time for the "prime" with the Russian opera: "Boris Godunov", the lyrical adaptation that the Russian composer Modest Petrovic Musorgskij made of the work of Alexander Pushkin.

The event always brings together the most select of politics, the business world, and culture and is undoubtedly one of the dates marked in red in the country's cultural calendar.

Thus, in one more year it will once again be chaired by the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, accompanied by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von Der Leyen, and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.

Attacks on culture

In Italy, there have been several attacks on works of art by environmental activists such as when they stuck their hands to the glass that protects "La Primavera" by Sandro Botticelli in the room of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (central Italy).

The latest attack occurred a few weeks ago when activists in the fight against climate change also threw eight kilos of flour on a car designed by Andy Warhol at an exhibition in Milan.

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