The new season opens with another step along the path of Riccardo Chailly’s Puccini Project, Madama Butterfly, which will be directed by Alvis Hermanis (Die Soldaten and I due Foscari at La Scala) with Maria José Siri as Butterfly and Bryan Hymel as Pinkerton. It will use the original version of the opera which premiered at La Scala in 1904.
2017 opens with three major Verdi productions: Don Carlo with Myung-Whun Chung in the pit and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Krassimira Stoyanova and Francesco Meli among the cast; Zubin Mehta will conduct Falstaff in Damiano Michieletto’s staging with Ambrogio Maestri; and Liliana Cavani’s 1990 production of La Traviata with star Anna Netrebko under the baton of Nello Santi.
Continue reading La Scala Opera Season 2016-2017 – full dates and casts at gramilano.