La Scala's 2024/2025 Opera Season presented in Vienna

(ANSA) - VIENNA, 16 SET - Palazzo Metternich, seat of the Italian Embassy in Vienna, for the third consecutive year hosted the press conference for the presentation of the 2024/2025 opera season of La Scala in Austria, in the presence of a selected audience of journalists and experts in the sector.
    In his welcome address to the guests, Ambassador Pugliese highlighted how music represents a common heritage of Italy and Austria, both of which are cradles and sources of inspiration for great composers, musicians and conductors. The Superintendent and Artistic Director of the Fondazione Teatro alla Scala, Dominique Meyer, illustrated to the large audience in the auditorium the varied programme of the forthcoming programme, emphasising in particular "the journey" between operas of the 17th and 18th centuries up to the contemporary and two great returns: "La forza del destino", one of Giuseppe Verdi's most complex operas and which will open the season on 7 December, and Bellini's "Norma", which has been missing from the Milanese theatre since 1977.
    The event was accompanied by a musical moment in which singer Nadine Sierra performed two arias from La Traviata. As always, there was a warm welcome from the public and the press for the now classic presentation of La Scala's season in Vienna, one of the world capitals of music. Austrian interest was also strong for LaScalaTV's programming.