(ANSA) - MILAN, MAY 19 - There is already the date of the debut: on April 27, 2025 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan the opera Il nome della rosa, based on the novel by Umberto Eco, will be staged.
The theatre, together with the Paris Opera and the Carlo Felice of Genoa and with the support of SIAE, commissioned the work to the Pisan composer Francesco Filidei, while the direction was entrusted to Damiano Michieletto and the direction to IngoMetzmacher, an internationally renowned master specialized in the contemporary repertoire. "This - explained the Milanese superintendent Dominique Meyer at the presentation - is a very important work. We don't just want to have a beautiful evening but an event".
The idea of commissioning a new opera to an Italian composer who had not yet been presented at La Scala was born in the covid period. The choice soon fell on Filidei, who at fifty years has already to his credit two other operas. And it was Filidei, during the second meeting, who proposed a work on the Name of the Rose. "We started with artistic coordinator André Comploi in summer 2020. This is a project from three years ago that will reach maturity in 2025, beyond my mandate" underlined Meyer, underlining the importance of the role of Comploi, an indirect response to those who think that in addition to a superintendent in the future will also serve an artistic director at Piermarini. But Meyer did not spare a jab at the new decree that sets the limit of 70 years for the superintendents, presenting in conference the guide of Carlo Felice ClaudioOrazi. "We've known each other for a long time. As you read from the old newspapers: I didn't notice." "The enterprise - explained Filidei, to whom the 2025 edition of the Milano Musica festival will be dedicated - is mammoth" important choruses, an alternation of recitatives and arias and a structure of the composition reminiscent of that of the petals of a rose. "I thank the Eco family and La nave di Teseo - he added - who followed me and helped me". (ANSA).
La Scala commissions a work on the Name of the Rose
2023-05-19T12:59:33.542Z
Highlights: On April 27, 2025 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan the opera Il nome della rosa, based on the novel by Umberto Eco, will be staged. The theatre, together with the Paris Opera and the Carlo Felice of Genoa and with the support of SIAE, commissioned the work to the Pisan composer Francesco Filidei. "This - explained the Milanese superintendent Dominique Meyer - is a very important work. We don't just want to have a beautiful evening but an event".
There is already the date of the debut: on April 27, 2025 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan will be staged the opera The Name of the Rose, based on the novel by Umberto Eco. (ANSA)