La Scala introduced today its 2010-2011 season. With the exception of the big season opener, Die Walkure, Metgoers will be familiar with a few productions and conductors -- Bondy's Tosca, Gergiev, Nezet-Seguin....
The season:
Richard Wagner Die Walküre (dir. Guy Cassiers, cond Daniel Barenboim; John Tomlinson, René Pape, Waltraud Meier, Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova)
Pietro Mascagni - Ruggero Leoncavallo Cavalleria rusticana - Pagliacci (dir. Mario Martone, cond Daniel Harding; Luciana D'Intino, Salvatore Licitra)
Giacomo Puccini Tosca (dir Luc Bondy; cond Omer Wellber; Martina Serafin, Jonas Kauffman)
Benjamin Britten Death in Venice (dir Deborah Warner, cond. Edward Gardner; Ian Bostridge)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte (dir William Kentridge, cond Roland Boer)
Giacomo Puccini Turandot (dir Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, cond Valery Gergiev; Maria Guleghina)
Charles Gounod Roméo et Juliette (dir Bartlett Sher, cond Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Vittorio Grigolo, Nino Machaidze)
Giuseppe Verdi Attila (dir Hugo de Ana, cond Nicola Luisotti; Furlanetto, Nucci, Carosi, Marcelo Alvarez)
Luca Francesconi Quartett (Dir. Alex Ollé, cond. Susanna Mälkki)
Richard Strauss Arabella (dir Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cond Franz Welser-Möst)
Claudio Monteverdi Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (dir Robert Wilson; cond Rinaldo Alessandrini)Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (dir Herbert Wernicke, cond Philippe Jordan)
Gioachino Rossini La donna del lago (dir Lluis Pasqual; cond. Roberto Abbado; Juan Diego Florez)