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And La Scala's New, Post-Barenboim Conductor is…Riccardo Chailly!
If the mounties are known for always getting their man, the same is often decidedly untrue in the murky world of opera house politics. But at La Scala, Italy's premiere house, they have pulled one heck of a triumph out of the hat and, reports Italy's influential Corriere della Sera (no official announcement from Milan yet), persuaded Riccardo Chailly to take up the mantle when Daniel Barenboim leaves. Stephen Sondheim Revises 'Company,' Now Bobby's Gay
In one of the most radical revisions of a major musical ever, Stephen Sondheim is to workshop a version of 'Company' with its main character now a gay man, and another important female character also now a man. Could it possibly work?
