Set Designer

Each year, La Scala entrusts a production to the forces of the Teatro alla Scala Academy of Performing Arts: the orchestra, soloists, and chorus are given the opportunity to engage with the main stage in front of the Season’s audience. For 2026, a new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is planned, conceived and designed to later be adapted as a performance for young audiences. The production offers the opportunity for two important debuts: Marco Alibrando, one of the most interesting Italian conductors of the new generation, recently appointed Music Director of the Nationaltheatre and Staatskapelle Weimar and the musical force behind the innovative Milan-based project Voce all’Opera, is rapidly establishing his career both in Italy and internationally. Maria Mauti arrives at La Scala following her work as a writer and documentary filmmaker, as well as her first opera directing experience with Norma in Macerata.

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L’elisir d’amore

Teatro alla Scala

In an inversion of the perception of time typical of dreams, an old actor, in the half-hour that separates him from going on stage to play the leading role in Strindberg's Temporale, finds himself reliving moments from his own life in an endless time. The soundtrack of the reality of a theatre that is coming alive outside his dressing room becomes the pretext and the sometimes light-hearted and sometimes moved invitation to wander and even to converse with the ghosts of his own past, in a mingling without temporal logic where one sound evokes another a laugh brings back a moment of joy a long silence to a loss distant in time.

Set Designer

Marco Rossi

Events

Upcoming events

5 - 16 Sep, 2026

L’elisir d’amore · Teatro alla Scala

16 - 24 Jan, 2027

Before The Storm · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

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