The opening of La Scala's season on 7 December each year is the most anticipated and often contested event in the international opera calendar.
Daniel Barenboim opens the 2014-2015 Opera and Ballet Season with Fidelio directed by Deborah Warner. It marks the end of his nine years at the Teatro alla Scala at its musical helm, even though Barenboim’s first concert at La Scala dates back to 1970. It started with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on 23 December 2005 and followed over the years by the complete Symphonies, piano concertos and sonatas and by concluding his experience as Music Director of the theatre with Fidelio, Maestro Barenboim completes a creative cycle that has given the theatre's audience the opportunity to experience a body of work which remains fundamental to western culture.
It is meaningful that in the finale of Fidelio Schiller’s verses echo: “Whoever has found a beloved wife, let him join our songs of praise!” (“Wer ein holdes Weib errungen / Mische seinen Jubel ein!”) taken from the Ode to Joy that was set to music in the Ninth Symphony. ...continue reading.
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