Yesterday's Corriere della Sera carried a big interview with Turin's Teatro Regio Music Director & Artistic Director Gianandrea Noseda: the maestro will conduct on Monday night at la Scala the Scala orchestra (Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo op.145, and Beethoven's Eroica).
"It's a strong, big emotion to conduct for the first time the Scala orchestra. To me, a Milanese who graduated from Milan's Conservatorio where I studied piano, composition and conducting, la Scala is like home. I have to demonstrate my worth".
Noseda had already conducted at la Scala, but with the Marinskjj orchestra (Opera Chic's favorite drunken genius, Valery Gergiev, is a Noseda fan). Then Noseda explains how he used to sneak in the loggione as a student:
"I had very little money but so much passion. I remember a concert, Georg Solti conducting Brahms , the 1st and the 3rd. This debut is a great accomplishment for me, prominent Italian conductors work at la Scala now: Chailly, Gatti".
A not so subtle dig at the recent Muti era when Italian conductors didn't appear much at la Scala.