Opera Now Magazine December 2014 Edizione posteriore

La Scala’s new music director Riccardo Chailly tells Opera Now how he plans to steer Italy’s flagship opera company through the troubled waters of the nation’s cultural crisis; the story of Casa Ricordi – one of the world’s most important publishing brands – from its beginnings in a tiny engraving shop to the company’s new series of interactive opera arias; and as the debate continues over the value of opera screenings in cinemas, we invite a selection of young opera professionals to share their thoughts on how relays are changing their experience of opera as performers and producers. Plus, how a new residency programme launched by Florentine Opera and the Solti Foundation-US is training a new generation of orchestral conductors in the very particular demands of opera-conducting; the opera bluff guide to Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel; Landestheater Linz; opera landmarks in Italy; and your chance to win Matthias Goerne’s Schubert Edition on 9 CDs and San Francisco Opera’s new Porgy and Bess DVD.