Teatro alla Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Teatro alla Scala Production

Running Time: 02 hours 50 minutes intermission included

Conductor : Myung-Whun Chung
Staging : Deborah Warner
Sets and costumes: Chloé Obolensky
Lights : Jean Kalman

CAST

Florestan : Stuart Skelton
Leonore : Simone Schneider
Marzelline : Eva Liebau
Rocco: Stephen Milling
Don Pizarro : Luca Pisaroni
Don Fernando: Martin Gantner
Iaquino : Martin Piskorski

NOTES ON THE PERFORMANCE

Beethoven's hymn to love and freedom returns to the stage in the majestic, essential production created by Deborah Warner for Daniel Barenboim’s last season opening spectacle at La Scala in 2014. In 2018 Myung-whun Chung will tackle for the first time Beethoven’s masterpiece, which for him has always represented the link between music and the values of humanism. Simone Schneider sings Leonore alongside Stuart Skelton – one of the world’s most respected heroic tenors of our time – in the role of Florestan, while the part of the wicked Don Pizarro is played by Luca Pisaroni.