Dominique Meyer gestures, during a press conference to present the 2024/2025 Opera, Ballet and Concert Season of La Scala Theater, in Milan, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala bade a bittersweet farewell to the theater during the presentation of 2024-25 season.
Meyer’s last gala premiere will be Verdi’s “The Force of Destiny,’’ starring Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann on Dec. 7. The new season also features a world premiere of “In the Name of the Rose,’’ a new opera by Francesco Filidei based on Umberto Eco’s novel commissioned by La Scala and the Paris Opera. It will be performed in Italian in Milan and Genoa, and in French in Paris.
“The period necessary to bring to life a new opera is longer than the mandate of a theater director,’’ Meyer told a news conference, adding pointedly, “A little stability doesn’t hurt.”G7 officials make progress but no final deal on money for Ukraine from frozen Russian assetsMeyer has been invited to stay on until August 2025, when he turns 70, in keeping with a new rule set by Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government that opera house directors must retire at 70.
Meyer, who took over in March 2020 as the pandemic shut theaters, noted that he had increased the contributions of sponsors to 38 million euros last year, above pre-pandemic levels. He said he had pushed up the daily box office take by 22% to 236,000 euros, largely by eliminating last-minute discounted tickets that he said “poisoned” the market.
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