La Scala’s orchestra, chorus and ballet company have flown out of Milan for a month on tour which will see them in Korea, China, Japan and Russia.
Tomorrow night at the Lotte Hall in Seoul, Myung-Whun Chung will conduct a concert performance of Simon Boccanegra with Simone Piazzola, Carmen Giannattasio, Fabio Sartori and Dmitry Belosselskiy. On 31 August he will again be on the podium for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, which he recently conducted at the open-air theatre of the Milan Expo site, with soloists Eva Mei, Michelle Breedt, Michael Schade and Detlef Roth. The same programme will be performed in China at Shanghai’s Oriental Art Centre on 3 and 4 September.
From China, the chorus and orchestra will head for Moscow where from 5 until 16 September they will perform staged performances of Simon Boccanegra in Federico Tiezzi’s production, recently seen in Milan, as well as Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of La Scala’s Music Director Riccardo Chailly with Maria José Siri, Daniela Barcellona, Francesco Meli e Dmitri Beloselskiy. Chailly will also conduct an Italian Concert on 15 September with pieces by Cherubini, Verdi and Rossini.
