The upcoming Bohéme, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, is the last OMG-IT'S-UNMISSABLE show to appear at La Scala for the next, like, year, considering how weak, on-the-cheap, repertory-heavy and star-deprived next season will be (the already really expensive tickets, on the other hand, will cost 10% more).
Scala workers, today, have duly decided to go on strike and sink the first three shows of the boy wonder of the podium (who, like another rising star, Daniel Harding, has not been booked to appear at la Scala next season and possibly neither in the 2010-11 season): anyway, the premiere of July 7 and the second and third show, on the 9th and 11th will not happen unless the unions decide to cancel the cancellation.
O.K., the production is the old dusty one by Zeffirelli since the theater clearly didn't want to shell out the cash to rent a newer production to give Dudamel, but still, this is pretty sad in so many ways.
:-(
