La forza del destino
Performances
Opera
La forza del destino
Giuseppe Verdi
From 10 December 2024 to 2 January 2025
| 3 hours and 40 minutes circa intermissions included | |
Opera in four acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala New Production |
| Conductor | RICCARDO CHAILLY |
| Staging | LEO MUSCATO |
| Sets | FEDERICA PAROLINI |
| Costumes | SILVIA AYMONINO |
| Lights | ALESSANDRO VERAZZI |
Cast
| Il marchese di Calatrava | Fabrizio Beggi |
| Donna Leonora | Anna Netrebko (10, 13, 16, 19, 22 Dec.) / Elena Stikhina (28 Dec., 2 Jan.) |
| Don Carlo di Vargas | Ludovic Tézier (10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 28 Dec.) / Amartuvshin Enkhbat (2 Jan.) |
| Don Alvaro | Jonas Kaufmann (10, 13, 16, 19 Dec.) / Luciano Ganci (28 Dec., 2 Jan.) |
| Preziosilla | Vasilisa Berzhanskaya |
| Padre guardiano | Alexander Vinogradov / Simon Lim (28 Dec., 2 Jan.) |
| Fra Melitone | Marco Filippo Romano |
| Curra | Marcela Rahal |
| Un alcade | Huanhong Li |
| Mastro Trabuco | Carlo Bosi |
| Un chirurgo | Xhieldo Hyseni |
In brief
Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destino, conducting his ninth Verdi title at La Scala. Leo Muscato will direct yet another cast of extraordinary prestige. A complex opera in terms of dramaturgy, first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862 and debuting in its final form at La Scala in 1869 with the creation of the famous overture, La forza del destino offers some of the most memorable Verdi melodies. It has been absent from the programme since the Verdi centennial in 2001, when it was brought to La Scala by the artists of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg; the La Scala Orchestra and Choir have not performed it since 1999
