Inauguration of the Piccola Scala during the full Covid period: 8 feet underground, the show is very much alive!

Two years after its inauguration, La Scala celebrates the opening of its little sister, the Piccola Scala. This was achieved with the technical support of Ocellis. <\/strong>Que its director Frédéric Biessy took up the challenge during the Covid period to create a second underground hall at 8.5 meters below the stage of the legendary Scala. A challenge that, on the eve of curfew, resonated as a unique cultural feat in Paris!<\/strong><\/p>

5,000 – 1,000 – 500, the decline in spectator quotas caused by Covid did not impress Frédéric Biessy. Resolved in this very particular context to "stay alert and adapt hour by hour".<\/p>

Already "a love story" by Alexis Michalik, scheduled in the main hall at 7:00 PM, sells out despite the curfew. But his ambition to facilitate the emergence of young talents to establish a real synergy with La Scala. Could only rely on one room. Whose dimensions and capacities are complementary and adapted to these cultural productions by artists seeking their first audience.<\/p>

However, it was by transforming the former rehearsal room that the idea of this Piccola Scala was born. Its ambition is to host meetings, concerts, conferences, or stand-up performances…<\/p>

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To accomplish an impossible mission, you need people running at the same speed as you. Ocellis allowed us to meet the incredible and double challenge of creating a new performance space. During the Covid period, mobilizing its construction teams in the middle of summer.<\/p> Frédéric Biessy – General director of La Scala<\/cite><\/blockquote>

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"It was obviously an incredible challenge to decide to carry out the work and inaugurate a new Parisian stage during the Covid period," explains the general director of La Scala. "With incredible technical constraints to achieve the perfect isophony of a second hall. Allowing the simultaneous production of two shows in the same building. In a site that required intervention on the foundations. Even in this building inserted into the hyper-urban environment of the Strasbourg-Saint-Denis district in Paris."<\/p>

"The challenge for Frédéric Biessy involved three inseparable axes," explains Benjamin Perron, Ocellis project manager. "The regulatory context to respect to make accessible to the public the level located at 8.5 meters deep under La Scala theatre, following the rules of a 2nd category ERP of type L."<\/p>

The exploitation constraint on which we had to be forceful in proposing solutions to achieve perfect sound insulation of the Piccola Scala. Likewise, the realization of this 'box within a box' had to be completed within a timeframe that matches Frédéric Biessy's ambitions." Having been accustomed for over 25 years to the craziest challenges at the head of his production company "Les petites heures," Frédéric Biessy acknowledges that this bet would not have been possible without the highly professional support of the Ocellis teams. "To accomplish an impossible mission, you need people running at the same speed as you. Especially when you tell them that the evening of the reserve release, 'the show must go on.' A special congratulations to Benjamin for successfully meeting this technological and human challenge!"<\/p>