La Scala’s Chief Executive, Alexander Pereira, saw his proposal for the theatre’s 2016-2017 season rejected yesterday by the Lombardy Region, one of the founding members of the Scala Foundation. Francesco Micheli, a long-time board member and opera specialist, abstained during the vote to approve the programming.
The Regional Minister for Culture, Cristina Cappellini, said that the Lombardy Region objected to too many expensive productions being brought in from other opera houses; these are often theatres that Pereira headed before taking over in Milan.