Corriere della Sera reports today that Claudio Abbado's history-making comeback to la Scala after 16 years (the story broke yesterday, see here) will happen in June 2010: three dates -- one of which will be reserved to young people, probably students and others under 26 -- and a program made of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony, to be performed by la Scala's orchestra and Abbado's own Orchestra Mozart.
Milan-born Abbado will be at la Scala next Tuesday to sign the contract, and he might even catch, Corriere writes, the premiere of Il Viaggio a Reims that night.