Daniel Harding's been funking up Milan since the current run of Robert Carsen's Falstaff that opened mid-month at Teatro alla Scala, and on Monday night, he does double-duty with Filarmonica della Scala in a sold-out concert dedicated to Wagner.
You can hear it all go down live on Radio3 -- Mozart's Masonic Maurerische Trauermusik, the Vorspiel & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and Strauss' Ein Heldenleben -- which launches the philharmonic org's new cycle "La Filarmonica della Scala incontra la città".
Nerdy fact: Scala's concertmaster Francesco de Angelis plays a 1716 Stradivari Maréchal Berthier ex Napoleone on loan from the Peterlongo Foundation. *turns into a Cremonese luthier, winks and struts out of the room*
