“Half of the programme will be dedicated to the Italian repertoire, because opera was born here,” Pereira told a news conference. La Scala's season will open with the 1846 Verdi opera “Attila” under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, with Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role opposite soprano Saioa Hernandez of Spain. “He's 82 years old, what does all this mean?” Pereira asked. “Let's not give that too much weight,” La Scala director Alexander Pereira told AFP, adding: “There's also another part” of Hollywood that still wants to work with Allen, who has directed more than 50 films, winning four Oscars and numerous accolades in Europe. READ ALSO: 'That time when…': Italian women speak up about sexual harassment The allegations, which have never been proved, resurfaced in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The 82-year-old has faced growing isolation over allegations that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow as a seven-year-old in 1992, leading a string of actors to distance themselves from him. Allen's version, which was a hit in Los Angeles in 2015 with Spanish legend Placido Domingo in the title role, will play in Milan in July 2019. The opera had its premiere at La Scala two years later, in a version completed by Franco Alfano.The programme, which opens on December 7th, will include the veteran US director's riotous rendition of Gianni Schicci, set in New York's “Little Italy” in the 1930s. Puccini was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in 1923 and died in Brussels the following year, while working on the final love duet.

His last years were spent working on his final opera, Turandot – the only Italian opera in the Impressionistic style. As a result, Il trittico was produced – a collection of three one-act operas: a sinister melodrama Il tabarro a sentimental religious tragedy Suor Angelica and a comic opera Gianni Schicchi. Puccini was fascinated by contemporary opera and studied the works of Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Scrivi alla redazione (ANSA) - Milan, February 15 - Woody Allen will produce the Puccini opera Gianni Schicchi at Milan opera house La Scala on July 6-21, sources said Friday.

1917 saw the premiere of La rondine but the opera was quickly forgotten. Its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in December 1910 was a great triumph, and with it Puccini reached the end of his mature period. In 1908, having spent the summer in Cairo, Puccini devoted himself to his next opera, La fanciulla del West.

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