Stéphane Lissner to leave La Scala for the Paris Opera in 2015

After the rumours and deni­als of recent days, Aurélie Fil­ip­petti, the French Min­is­ter of Cul­ture, has con­firmed that Stéphane Liss­ner will take over from Nic­olas Joel when the lat­ter leaves the helm of the Paris Opera in 2015.

Lissner’s very luc­rat­ive con­tract as Sov­rin­tend­ente of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala was due to expire in 2017. How­ever recently his pro­gram­ming has been upset­ting many of Milan’s sea­son ticket hold­ers who are fed up with pay­ing a for­tune for a fixed seat in the house to assist min­im­al­ist pro­duc­tions with mini-skirts and trench-coats. A protest group had recently been formed.

How­ever Liss­ner did man­age to reign in the extra­vag­ant spend­ing of the Ric­cardo Muti years, and put the bal­ance sheet in order. This is pre­cisely what will be needed in Paris after the recent cuts. In fact it was those cuts which  caused Joel’s resignation.

So what of La Scala? May the battle commence!

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