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Christian Thielemann gives up the Ring at La Scala, Simone Young replaces him

At the end of October, La Scala will be staging a new Ring by Wagner (for the first time in ten years), and Christian Thielemann was to conduct it. He has had to withdraw for medical reasons. He will be replaced by Simone Young, the first woman to conduct the Ring at La Scala. From the end of October this year, La Scala in Milan will launch a new Wagner Tetralogy. A new production of Das Rheingold by David McVicar will open this new Wagner cycle - followed by Die Walküre and...

Published onthe 15 of September
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Turandot with Anna Netrebko to be broadcast from La Scala in Milan

From 25 June, Milan's La Scala will be staging a new production of Turandot by director Davide Livermore, starring Anna Netrebko in the role of the Ice Princess. The production, which will be broadcast live on 4 July on ScalaTV and Arte Concert, is generating a certain amount of curiosity. As part of the commemoration of the centenary of Puccini's death, La Scala has programmed two new productions of the composer's operas this season. The first was La Rondine, performed...

Published onthe 22 of June
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Alexander Pereira : " Great music for new generations "

LEADER’S VISION - GREAT MUSIC FOR NEW GENERATIONS Alexander Pereira wakes up every morning with 50 things he wants to accomplish that day. This bodes for a certain degree of frustration when they can’t all be achieved, but the general manager of La Scala is undeterred: ‘‘I always feel I have too much energy,’’ he says. Pereira was appointed to his current position in June 2014. He had previously served as artistic director of the Salzburg...

Published onthe 11 of June
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Nina Stemme: Wagner Today

Suddenly, it’s obvious. She had been virtually unheard of, and now her name is suddenly on everyone’s lips. Yet she was one of the winners of the first Operalia competition in 1993; she debuted in Bayreuth in 1997, but she was merely singing Freia three years in a row, and Bayreuth then forgot her until two summers devoted to Isolde, in 2005 and 2006.Meanwhile, she’d had the time to make her debut in Salzburg (in Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules in 2002),...

Published onthe 29 of April
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Jonas Kaufmann renounces to Cavalleria Rusticana at La Scala

Each season or so in the biggest opera houses’ program, Jonas Kaufmann is nowadays one of the major performers of the lyrical scenes, able to fulfil entire auditoriums only based on his name, reaching a point that artistic directors wrest his commitments sometimes years in advance. This datebook can however turn out to be heavy, physically and vocally – the tenor highlighted recently on BBC that if “an agenda full for the coming five years proves to be financially...

Published onthe 05 of March
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La Traviata opens the new season at La Scala

The new production of Verdi’s La Traviata (which Stéphane Lissner had announced as a premiere) will be the main event for the end of this Verdi Year. There are several reasons for that. First, it is certainly one of Verdi’s most popular works, and perhaps in all of opera. Because of its libretto, of course, as melodramatic as one could wish. Also for its music, at once simple and effective, admirably constructed in its effects, theatrical in the finest sense of the...

Published onthe 27 of November