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Teatro alla Scala

MusikTheater an der Wien

Conductor

Conductor (+7)

Christophe Rousset

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Laurent Pelly

Set designer

Massimo Troncanetti

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Marco Giusti

Choreographer

Lionel Hoche

Baritone (+3)

Pietro Spagnoli

Fallito

Mattia Olivieri

Delirio

Tenor

Giovanni Sala

Sospiro

Tenor (+2)

Josh Lovell

Ritornello

Soprano (+3)

Julie Fuchs

La Stonatrilla

Soprano (+1)

Andrea Carroll

La Smorfiosa

Soprano (+2)

Serena Gamberoni

La Porporina

Baritone (+1)

Alessio Arduini

Passagallo

Tenor (+6)

Alberto Allegrezza

Bragherona

Countertenor (+4)

Lawrence Zazzo

Befana

Countertenor (+5)

Filippo Mineccia

Caverna

Orchestra

Les Talens Lyriques

Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala

Costume designer

La Scala has recently undertaken the systematic rediscovery of the Italian roots of melodrama. After looking to Venice (La Calisto by Cavalli and L’Orontea by Cesti) and Naples (Vinci’s Li zite ’ngalera), in 2025 the theatre presents an encounter of two of Italy’s premier poets, Pietro Metastasio and Ranieri de’ Calzabigi, with a Bohemian who made Venice his second home, Florian Leopold Gassman, court composer for Joseph II and Antonio Salieri’s teacher. The latter’s Opera seria, presented in Vienna in 1769 and here conducted by Christophe Rousset in a new production by Laurent Pelly with a stellar cast of young talents, is an irresistible satire of the theatre world that aptly conveys the koinè of the Gluckian reform, in which librettist Calzabigi figured prominently.

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