The previously announced ballet to be performed at California’s Segerstrom Center by La Scala’s Ballet Company was Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cinderella, a ballet created for the opening of La Scala’s ballet season in 2015.
Bigonzetti had a short-lived tenure at the helm of the La Scala company: less than ten months, in 2016. His departure because of ill-health – though voices in the theatre corridors indicated other factors may have come in to play – resulted in the substitution of his planned new creation (a Coppélia) for the beginning of the 2016-2017 season with the repertory Romeo and Juliet.