Giuseppe Verdi’s powerful love story “La Traviata”, conducted by Italy’s Daniele Gatti, will open the 2013-2014 season at La Scala opera house in Milan, which will feature 10 operas and six ballets.
Italian opera lovers will be pleased to see the line-up include Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” and “Simon Boccanegra”, as well as Pietro Mascagni’s tale of adultery “Cavalleria Rusticana”, Gaetano Donizetti’s haunting “Lucia di Lammermoor” and Gioachino Rossini’s humourous “Le Comte Ory.”
Other works include Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte”, “Elektra” by Richard Strauss and “Troyens” by Berlioz.
Opening night at the opera is December 7 while the ballet season kicks off on December 17 with an evening dedicated to Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, with Italian and Ukraine-born dancers Roberto Bolle and Svetlana Zakharova.
Verdi's Traviata to open La Scala season
