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Good news for dance at La Scala. Cut­ting down on the budget has meant axing three opera pro­duc­tions, but opera’s loss is ballet’s gain, for the ‘cheaper’ bal­let per­form­ances have been bumped up from 49 this sea­son to a health­ier 61.

More guests too will liven up the 2013–2014 sea­son. House fix­tures Svet­lana Zakhar­ova, Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru will be joined by return­ing guests Polina Semi­onova and Friedemann Vogel for Balanchine’s Dia­monds, and Nat­alia Osipova with Ivan Vasiliev for Rubies. Osipova and Vasiliev will also dance in Don Quix­ote later in the sea­son, as well as Zakhar­ova with Denis Matvi­enko, mak­ing a long awaited return, and Leonid Sara­fanov will return to Milan as Basilio.

Zakhar­ova and Semi­onova will also appear in Swan Lake with David Hall­berg who will be mak­ing his house début. It will be gloves off for Bolle and Vasiliev in the Petit pro­gramme where they will altern­ate in Le jeune homme et la mort.

The sea­son con­cludes with MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet with Zakhar­ova and Bolle, Osipova and Vasiliev, and Murru will dance with the Royal Ballet’s Mari­anela Núñez, who is return­ing after a long absence from the La Scala stage, her last appear­ance being as Gamz­atti in La Bay­adère dur­ing the 2008–2009 season.

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