Overview: Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly’s appointment as La Scala’s new music director was news that I greeted with enthusiasm when first announced in 2013.
Attila
30 pieces since 2008 — at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
30
pieces
3
companies
19
years
Company La Scala
Company Metropolitan Opera
Hun more for the road
La Cieca has the first top-secret highly classified eyes-only report from inside the hermetically sealed Attila dress rehearsal at the Met. Our spy (possibly pictured above) speaks out — after the jump, naturally.
Company Teatro Regio di Parma
Another Hun bites the dust
Verdi’s Attila is hardly a rarity in Italy the way it is in the United States.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).