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La Scala the world's most prestigious? Hardly - most prestigious in Italy maybe (although I'd rate the Regio in Turin under Gianandrea Noseda better on purely musical terms). I'd rank Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie in Brussels and the combined three houses in Berlin as higher than Milan. And for difficulty of tickets, Bayreuth and Glyndebourne are tough tickets indeed.
If it's the most prestigious opera house in Italy, doesn't that make it the most prestigious in the world

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