Now that the exciting and welcome news about Fabio Luisi‘s new position as Principal Guest Conductor has had a chance to settle a bit, La Cieca would like to quote an old, old, old friend and suggest that “our retrospection shall be all to the future.” Let’s slip into our Zukunftsbrillen after the jump, shall we?

Now, you may recall, cher public, that the 480 of you who voted were pretty accurate in predicting how many of his scheduled late spring Met performances James Levine would eventually conduct, i.e., none. So now let’s turn our minds to 2010-2011, shall we? (Note that this is a multiple-choice, poll: in other words, check next to each production you believe Levine will end up conducting.)

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Dates for Levine’s scheduled performances may be derived from the Met’s 2010-2011 season calendar.

For your convenience, La Cieca has assembled the following calendar listing for Maestro Luisi his current commitments for 2010-2011, and (perhaps very much to the point) which dates currently remain open in case he is called upon to fill in for an ailing colleague.