La Scala's Risky Choice of Conductor Pays Off in `Don Giovanni'
By Shirley Apthorp
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- La Scala's new ``Don Giovanni'' is nihilist, minimalist and high-risk.
Blank walls, black-and white-costumes and a total absence of frippery characterize Peter Mussbach's somber take on Mozart's work, heralding closer links between the Milanese house and the distant Berlin Staatsoper. With Daniel Barenboim as the new La Scala guest conductor and guiding musical light, it makes sense for the head of his Berlin house to stage an opera in Milan.
By Shirley Apthorp
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- La Scala's new ``Don Giovanni'' is nihilist, minimalist and high-risk.
Blank walls, black-and white-costumes and a total absence of frippery characterize Peter Mussbach's somber take on Mozart's work, heralding closer links between the Milanese house and the distant Berlin Staatsoper. With Daniel Barenboim as the new La Scala guest conductor and guiding musical light, it makes sense for the head of his Berlin house to stage an opera in Milan.
Mussbach's emotionally chilly intellectualism is light years away from the period costume dramas favored under the 14 years of Riccardo Muti's Scala era and entirely in keeping with French manager Stephane Lissner's new direction for the hallowed house. Equally in tune with Lissner's taste for renewal is the presence of 25-year-old Venezuelan prodigy Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.
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