Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at La Scala

Christopher Wheeldon’s now-canonical masterpiece arrives at La Scala in the original Royal Ballet production, confirming both its structural sophistication and its enduring theatrical appeal. Yet the evening reveals a mixed interpretative landscape, where clarity of conception coexists with moments of reduced theatrical incisiveness.

Fifteen years after its creation for The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada, Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, set to the kaleidoscopic score by Joby Talbot, arrives at Teatro alla Scala in Milan not as a novelty, but as a firmly canonised work of twenty-first-century narrative ballet.