What will happen to La Scala? Immobility and the decisions that would be needed

The choice of new jobs and the mess of having lost Fuortes: what will happen to the historic Milanese theater only Beppe Sala knows. If things are going well in the administrative and economic budget, the artistic one is still to be verified

Now it is certain: Carlo Fuortes, once out of the bunker in viale Mazzini, he will not move to La Scala but to San Carlo (provided that the government manages to dislodge Stéphane Lissner from Naples, who is already sharpening stamped papers). It would then be interesting to understand what will happen to the Milanese theater. The tenure of the current superintendent and artistic director, Dominique Meyer, expires in 2025, that of the mayor and president of the Foundation, Beppe Sala, in ’26. Sala put up the barricades against Fuortes, who instead would have been the right man in the right place, in the name of the sacrosanct autonomy of La Scala and more generally of Milan from Roman politics (and thus renouncing to keep in the Pd area, until 2030, the most important Italian cultural institution). An attempt to prolong Meyer by a year, then have him expire at the same time as the mayor, didn’t even make it to the board of directorsa sign that there wasn’t a majority or it wasn’t large enough.