(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 7 - Anticapitalist, anarchist and pro-Palestinian protesters from so-called 'social centre' squats dumped manure outside La Scala ahead ... high points of Italy's social calendar.

The opera has been dogged by superstition that it brings bad luck, so much so that some in Italy will not say the full title aloud. But La Scala general manager Dominique Meyer said the reason so ...