Name: Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
Start: 2026-11-15T11:00:00
Location: Teatro alla Scala

James Vaughan

Andrea Pecolo

Duccio Beluffi

Giovanni Emanuele Urso

Marco Zoni

Alfredo Persichilli

Andrea Rebaudengo

Francesco Lattuada

Aron Chiesa

Giulia Taccagni

Fabrizio Meloni

Pedro  Pereira De Sá

Marion Reinhard

Marco Toro

Andrea Bindi

Paolo Spadaro Munitto

Francesco Guggiola

Andrea Manco

Michelangelo Mercuri

Martina Lopez

Sabina Bakholdina

Estela Sheshi

Suela Piciri

Mario Marzi

Francesco Tamiati

Giorgio Magistroni

Beatrice Pomarico

Gianluca Muzzolon

Joel Imperial

Lucia Zanoni

Agnese Ferraro

Teatro alla Scala

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Michele Mariotti

After the Kurt Weill Triptych and the Season opening in tribute to Shostakovich, Music Director M° Chailly adds another key milestone to his ongoing exploration of Verdi’s work, completing his survey of the composer’s early operas with the work that marked a turning point. The triumph of Nabucodonosor at La Scala in 1842 signaled the definitive breakthrough of the composer, while also forging a strong bond between the Milanese theatre (and, more broadly, Italian opera) and the emerging spirit of unification and the Risorgimento. The new production, in which the divertissements composed by Verdi for the 1848 revival in Brussels will be performed, marks the La Scala debut of the now well-established talent of Alessandro Talevi, a South African director who has reconnected with his Italian roots. The cast is the best imaginable: Anna Netrebko, Luca Salsi, Francesco Meli, Michele Pertusi, and Veronica Simeoni. Also central to the production is the Chorus, conducted by Alberto Malazzi, performing the iconic “Va, pensiero.”

Nabucodonosor

Alda Caiello and Quartetto Noûs - 35° Festival Milano Musica

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Michele Gamba, Minh-Tam Nguyen - 35° Festival Milano Musica

A huge success since its creation in 2011, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland solidifies Christopher Wheeldon’s place among the most interesting contemporary choreographers for his skill and originality in engaging and even entertaining audiences with a modern narrative ballet, described almost as “a classic of our time,” where academic technique blends with contemporary sensibility. An explosion of colours, innovative and sophisticated choreography, imaginative and astonishing costumes and sets – from puppetry to projections – and a score that combines contemporary sound worlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century. With Alice, we are drawn into a myriad of adventures and encounters; the extraordinary and recognisable characters from Lewis Carroll’s books provide the opportunity for the artists to shine in a variety of styles, even winking at the great 19th-century ballets: how can one resist the Queen of Hearts in a hilarious send-up of the Rose Adage.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Mimì wonders about her future: “What will I be when I grow up?… a marine biologist?” Yes! So why not start from the canals of the Navigli and set off on an adventure through the waters of the world…

Mimì & Teo and… The Fantastic Raft

The next Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Whun Chung, reaches his eleventh opera title at La Scala (having conducted over 140 concerts both at home and on tour) with this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Madrid’s Teatro Real. Well-versed in French music—also through his work with the Opéra Bastille and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—Chung leads a cast that is perfectly idiomatic. Alongside Clémentine Margaine in the title role, alternating with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Giorgi Manoshvili as Escamillo, the production features Vittorio Grigolo as Don José—a major Italian voice with a strong affinity for the French repertoire— alternating with Matthew Polenzani. Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin reduce local colour to a minimum in order to construct a bare and effective spectacle, focused on the ineluctable fate of the protagonists.

Carmen

Myung-Whun Chung / Beethoven / Brahms

Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy

A milestone in the history of musical theater, born from the encounter between the sensibilities of Italian melodrama and the Gothic atmospheres of Walter Scott's novel, Lucia di Lammermoor is conceived by director Yannis Kokkos, who created this production in 2003 under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, as a merciless hunt whose victim is driven to the depths of madness, evoked by Donizetti with the diaphanous sound of the glass harmonica. The revival is entrusted to an expert conductor in bel canto, Speranza Scappucci, who made her debut at La Scala with Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi .