La Scala renews its music director
mainThings are going so well in his first full season that Riccardo Chailly has signed a second contract with La Scala, taking him to 2022.
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Chailly is not in good health.
That is not true. He has long-standing cardiac issues about which he has been admirably transparent.
Things are absolutely NOT going well – audience and orchestra hate him -, but his political lobby is so powerful and Pereira so weak, that the new contract was signed.
But thing are changing much more rapidly than Chailly and his wife guess…