mussel Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) Effective at the end of 2020: https://www.gramilano.com/2020/02/manuel-legris-to-take-over-as-head-of-la-scalas-ballet-company/?fbclid=IwAR05ZngyfPid4_rFV84FM0pjyjU8JCjIlD_ylL8DmxrPHV6lf2HGpORgI7U Edited February 18, 2020 by mussel
naomikage Posted February 19, 2020 Posted February 19, 2020 Confirmed on Legris's Instagram. https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/palcoscenico/2020/02/18/news/manuel-legris-e-il-nuovo-direttore-del-corpo-di-ballo-della-scala-1.38484973
volcanohunter Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 Manuel Legris plans to leave La Scala at the end of the 2024-25 season (bearing in mind that La Scala's season always opens on December 7). Roberto Bolle and Eleonora Abbagnato are being considered for the job. https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/laddio-amaro-dei-francesi-alla-scala-legris-sara-la-mia-ultima-stagione-76e2a0c3
Drew Posted June 2, 2024 Posted June 2, 2024 10 hours ago, volcanohunter said: Manuel Legris plans to leave La Scala at the end of the 2024-25 season (bearing in mind that La Scala's season always opens on December 7). Roberto Bolle and Eleonora Abbagnato are being considered for the job. https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/laddio-amaro-dei-francesi-alla-scala-legris-sara-la-mia-ultima-stagione-76e2a0c3 To an outsider it seems as if the job would be Bolle's for the asking. He's a La Scala product in a way Abbagnato is not and, although he hasn't run a company as she has, he has been running his own touring group for quite some time. (Of course I don't know what I don't know. Perhaps others know more?) Given Legris's experience with big opera houses in Paris and Vienna, as well as dancing throughout the world, he had seemed a good choice for La Scala -- I say this even though my own tastes don't always line up with his programming. (As indeed I wouldn't expect them to line up with anyone programming at La Scala.) I gather from English press reports that the current Italian government wants Italians for leading cultural positions in Italy.
volcanohunter Posted February 19 Posted February 19 Frédéric Olivieri will become La Scala Ballet's next director--for the third time. The contract will run for only two years. (Perhaps by then Roberto Bolle will have retired from the stage. ) https://www.radioclassique.fr/classique/frederic-olivieri-succede-a-manuel-legris-a-la-tete-du-ballet-de-la-scala-de-milan/
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