La Scala favourite withdraws from race
UncategorizedItalian media are reporting that Carlo Fuortes, sovritendente of the Rome Opera, is seeking a contract renewal. He is not interested, it is said, in succeeding Alexander Pereira as sovrintendente at La Scala.
Fuortes has informed the Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, that he wants to stay.
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That would leave Dominique Meyer, the outgoing Vienna Opera chief, as the new favourite for La Scala.
Oh mein Gott..!
Not even La Scala would deserve Mayer. Horrible idea…
Dominique Meyer as sovrintendente of La Scala is as unlikely as Ivanka Trump becoming Secretary-General of the UN. Although at least Meyer can count to 99.6
The 2018-2019 season of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, just announced, is very impressive.
Eight new productions with directors Ai Wewei, Valentina Carrasco, Robert Carsen, Denis Krief, Graham Vick, Emilio Sagi, Damiano Michieletto, Richard Jones.
Two cash-cows revivals (“Tosca” and “La traviata”) and one concert version (“Oedipus Rex”).
Fuortes and Gatti are leading one of the best opera houses in Europe. La Scala’s Italian primacy is a wreck of the past.
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