La Scala commissions opera based on Eco's Name of the Rose

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 19 - A new opera based on the late Italian writer and intellectual Umberto Eco's 1980 historical novel The Name of the Rose is set to premiere at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in April 2025, the theatre management said on Friday.
    The lyric work has been commissioned by La Scala together with the Paris Opéra and Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice from Pisan composer Francesco Filidei, and it will be directed by Damiano Michieletto.
    "This is a very important work," said La Scala superintendent Dominique Meyer.
    "We don't want to just have a nice evening, but an event," he added.
    The project has the support of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (Siae). (ANSA).