Claudio Abbado, in the latest issue of the Italian music magazine Classic Voice -- the story is not online -- anticipates his latest project: the 76-year old Milanese maestro, a Michael Haneke fan, was so impressed by the Austrian director's film, The White Ribbon, that he's thinking of a future "Lulu"... conducted by Abbado and directed by Haneke (Haneke directed in 2006 a "Don Giovanni" in Paris sadly conducted by Sylvain Cambreling, probably the worst professional conductor who ever appeared in first-rate venues).
The project's still in its infancy, but the most astonishing part of the interview is that Abbado, who'll come back to la Scala this coming summer after a long absence (he'll conduct the Scala orchestra in Mahler's Second), does not deny that he could even conduct this production at la Scala.
As of today, this seems to be little more than an idea, but quite obviously, an Abbado/Haneke production of Lulu at la Scala would be the most exciting opera production since... the Boulez/Chereau Ring?