Fof the great opportunities for the presentation of the Season 25/26 of Teatro alla Scala of Milan. Moreover, of great opportunity it was: after the era of the superintendent Dominique Meyer, Today that of the successor opens, Lucky ortombina. And this is the last press conference also for the musical director, Riccardo Chaillywhich in 2027 will give way to the South Korean colleague Myung-Whun Chung. Another new entry (so to speak): Frédéric Olivieri It happens to Manuel Legris, but in reality he had already been twice driving the body of dance. “The ambition is that no Milanese can say:” I have never been to the scale “. In Italy, national literature is not represented by Manzoni, but by Giuseppe Verdi, “said Ortombina, arriving from the Fenice of Venice, after greeting Liliana Segre, session in the front row. “It is a very faithful subscriber and I know that, if something is wrong, it does not exist in mind.” However, the situation he inherited from Meyer does not seem to make him fear criticism: The room is always full at 90 percent and, above all, a third of the spectators is under 35 years old.
In Sant’Ambrogio you dare
A moment of the “Turandot” which will be staged in April 2026 (photo Brescia and Amisano © Teatro alla Scala).
Will be A Macbeth Lady of the Mcensek District To inaugurate for San’Ambrogio, on 7 December, the Scaliger events. A choice that had been made by Meyer but that Ortombina marries in full. “It is a difficult, stinging work, it is a rough topic, but it is an essential masterpiece of the twentieth century” explains Chailly, who will propose it in the original version, written by Šostakovič in 1934, and not in that he himself remodeled after Stalin’s death, who had prohibited him as “unsuitable for the Soviet people”.
A real shame: A macbeth lady He should have inaugurated a trilogy on the condition of the woman in Russia and instead the composer (of which the fifty -year -old of death falls this year) stopped. Based on a story by Nikolaj Leskov, it is the story of a young bride of the Tsarist period who falls in love with one of the servants and, with her complicity, kills her husband and mother -in -law, but is discovered, ending up committing suicide in Siberia. The direction is entrusted to the Russian director Vasily Barkhatov, also known as the husband of the soprano Asmik Grigorian.
The 100 years of “Turandot”
The centenary of Turandot. The absolute first was held here at Scala on April 25, 1926: Giacomo Puccini had disappeared in Brussels on November 29, 1924without completing the score. The direction is already seen by David Livermore; Anna Pirozzi is Turandot, Mariangela Sicily plus; He directs Nicola Luisotti.
“Traviata”, “ring”,
“Nabucco”
A moment of “La Traviata” (photo Brescia and Amisano).
Among the filming, too La Traviata with the direction of Liliana Cavani (Violetta this time will be Nadina Sierra), while The quadrilogy of the Ring des Nibelungen directed by Alexander Soddy and Simone Young. “The public has” grown “,” said Ortombina. “Before you made a Wagner every now and then precisely because” it had to be done “: today his works are already all sold out by subscription”.
Another philological operation for Nabukodonosorbetter known as Nabuccowhich at the Scala in 1842 consecrated Verdi and his Risorgimento Spirit with the Celeberrimo Goes, thought. Chailly opted for a version never performed, the one with the danceable of the third performed, the divertisses composed for the recovery of 1848 in Brussels. The direction is of a scale debutant, the South African Alessandro Talevi.
Debutant in scale, but genius recognized in the world, is Romeo Castellucci, who debuts to Piermari with Pelléas et mélisande by Debussyworks particularly suitable for its conception of symbolic and visionary theater. He directs Maxime Pascal, who “replaces” the expected Daniele Gatti (the teacher gave up every Scaliger commitment after, the music direction, Myung-Whun Chung was preferred to him).
News for the ballet
A moment of the ballet “Alice in Wonderland” (photo Jeff Busby).
The ballet season is also rich, with five news for the scale and some recovery from the consolidated repertoire (Sleeping beauty, Don Quixote by Nureyev, Giselle by Yvette Chauviré). Waiting for Alice’s adventures in Wonderlandwhich in 2011 consecrated Christopher Wheeldon among the most interesting contemporary authors at the (almost) level of Ohad Naharin and Wayne McGregor (also on the bill). Finally arrives at Piermarini there Spring Festival by Pina Bausch. Roberto Bolle? Quiet: it will be on stage for some performances of Apollo by Balanchine ,,
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