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Titolo: Barenboim & la Scala : novità in vista?

Sul New York Times di oggi si parla di una conferenza stampa indetta per 
lunedì 15 nella quale Barenboim illustrerà i suoi impegni futuri con la 
Scala di Milano.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/arts/music/10scal.html?_r=1&oref=login
[registrazione gratuita richiesta]
Barenboim Takes On Role at La Scala in Milan
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Published: May 10, 2006
Daniel Barenboim will take on a prominent role at Teatro Alla Scala opera 
house in Milan, a Scala spokesman said yesterday, and will partly fill the 
vacuum created by Riccardo Muti's stormy departure a year ago.
Mr. Barenboim, who is the general music director of Staatsoper Unter den 
Linden in Berlin and winds up his music directorship at the Chicago Symphony 
Orchestra in June, will have a "continuous and important commitment" to La 
Scala, a spokesman, Carlo Maria Cella, said in a telephone interview from 
Milan.
Mr. Cella declined to provide details, since Mr. Barenboim plans to describe 
the new arrangement at a news conference in Milan on Monday.
Mr. Barenboim's contract at the Staatsoper runs until 2012, and he is 
director for life of the house's orchestra, which performs as the Berlin 
Staatskapelle. A Staatsoper spokeswoman, Ursula Nussbaum, said La Scala and 
the Staatsoper would be joining forces for some productions.
"We are going to plan some musical and institutional partnerships in a way, 
talking about productions and planning some productions together," she said. 
"This will be the effect on the Staatsoper" of Mr. Barenboim's involvement 
at La Scala, she said. "We will not lose him, and he will not reduce" his 
time at the Staatsoper, Ms. Nussbaum said.
The Staatsoper's general manager, Peter Mussbach, will attend Monday's news 
conference, La Scala said.
Mr. Cella discounted the idea that Mr. Barenboim would become a full-fledged 
successor to Mr. Muti, who resigned as music director in April 2005 after a 
highly public wrangle with La Scala's orchestra and other workers. 
Politics - both in the house and the good old-fashioned kind between left 
and right - also played a role.
La Scala has been relying on guest conductors since the resignation. "Since 
it wasn't possible to find a director of great importance immediately," Mr. 
Cella said, "it was felt that at least for a year or two, La Scala could 
stick with a series of guest conductors, and then look around for what could 
happen."
But in December Mr. Barenboim - appearing at the house for the first time in 
decades - led a rapturously received performance of Beethoven's Ninth 
Symphony. Italian newspapers reported that the players and conductor were 
enamored of one another.
"The orchestra was very impressed, and in time discussions began," Mr. Cella 
said, leading to the relationship to be announced on Monday. Mr. Barenboim 
has a production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" scheduled for December 
2007 at La Scala.
In addition, La Scala's superintendent, Stéphane Lissner, and Mr. Barenboim 
have a friendship dating back to a production of Berg's "Wozzeck" in Paris 
in 1983 that both were involved in, Mr. Cella said.
Mr. Barenboim's plans in Milan drew a gloomy reaction in Berlin, where the 
government is hard pressed for funds, and the city's opera houses and 
orchestras are preoccupied with the financial future and potential mergers. 
Mr. Barenboim has been a steadfast opponent of a potential merger between 
the orchestras of the Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper, another of Berlin's 
three major opera houses.
"Are Mussbach and Barenboim still an engaged and convincing team?" The 
Berliner Morgenpost wrote on Monday. "Or has Barenboim lost his appetite for 
a house that has to fight for each euro and is worn down by unrealistic cuts 
and may eventually fall victim to a fusion with the Deutsche Oper one day?"
A commuting maestro, the newspaper said, "is no long-term solution." 

Tutte le novità qui -> 
http://www.teatroallascala.org/public/system/galleries/download/ConferenzaBarenboim/CS_Barenboim.pdf
R.