Fred Plotkin's Operavore commented on the 2015 Alexander Pereira La Scala appointment and asked us what we thought. You can go here to read OC's commentary.
Frankly, the Milanese don't care as much about the murky, bureaucrat GM position as they do its MD, so gawd save Scala if Barenboim's a$$ isn't hit on the way out by an incoming Italian maestro in a bespoke Kiton frac. Pereira and his Tony Montana money/power/women undercurrents are methodically indulged because really, what's more operatic than Scarface?