2009-2010 Season Presentation
Stéphane Lissner presented today the 2009-2010 Programme of the Teatro alla Scala, his fifth season as General Manager and Artistic Director in Milan.
A new production of Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Emma Dante, will open a season that includes nineteen opera and ballet productions. There will be nine new productions, amongst which the beginning of a new Ring Cycle by Wagner directed by the Belgian theatre maker Guy Cassiers, and more than sixty symphonic, voice and chamber concerts.
Particularly worth noting in this 2009-2010 Season is the presence of a series of outstanding conductors, who start or continue their collaboration with La Scala: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Nicola Luisotti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Prominent directors make their debut or return to La Scala, amongst whom Patrice Chéreau, La Fura dels Baus, Peter Stein, Federico Tiezzi, Eimuntas Nekrosius and Laurent Pelly.
This season La Scala will also welcome the following singers, in order of appearance: Jonas Kaufmann, Leo Nucci, Stefano Secco, Peter Mattei, Erwin Schrott, Carmela Remigio, Juan Francisco Gatell, Robert Dean Smith, Anja Harteros, Julia Gertseva, Plácido Domingo, Carlos Alvarez, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Laura Aikin, René Pape, Marcello Giordani, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Juan Diego Florez, Alessandro Corbelli, Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazon, Nino Machaidze, Ambrogio Maestri; as well as Ildar Abrazakov, Simon Keenlyside, Angela Denoke, Christopher Maltman, Fiorenza Cedolins, Waltraud Meier and Sonia Ganassi.
Plácido Domingo, who will hold the leading role in a new production of Simon Boccanegra in April, will celebrate his forty years at La Scala on 9 December 2009. The Spanish tenor, who made his La Scala debut in Verdi’s Ernani in 1969, will sing the role of Siegmund in the first act of Wagner’s Die Walküre conducted by Daniel Barenboim in concert version. He will be accompanied by Nina Stemme (Sieglinde) and Kwangchul Young (Hunding).
