Daniele Gatti's busy summer (in Bayreuth with Parsifal and in Salzburg with Elektra) included an interview in today's Corriere della Sera (not online until tomorrow): the Milanese conductor explained to the august Milanese newspaper why Italian conductors thrive abroad but have problems in their own country, and says that he has cancelled his next two commitments at la Scala because he found Luc Bondy's staging for Tosca "unconvincing" and because "I asked for a new production of Bohème, not, with all due respect, for Zeffirelli's. I'll be back to Milan in 2013, for the anno verdiano: with Messa da Requiem and Falstaff".