La Scala renounces the tour in Egypt, Kuwait and Dubai. The request for 16 shows from the Middle East faded after protests by the unions, ready to ask for a clarification meeting with the management. A “political question” they pointed out, recalling the case of Giulio Regeni, and above all the yellow banner, hung in Piazza Scala on the Town Hall, asking for the truth about his murder. The invitation from Cairo would have replaced the tour in Japan, more than once postponed due to Covid. The tour, confirmed by the theater, in the North African country will not take place “for various reasons”.
Thus defused in the bud a controversy that recalls the one that broke out when the then superintendent Alexander Pereira had hypothesized the entry into the board of directors of the theater for the Saudi government. The Egypt issue, however, was not discussed today during the meeting of the board of directors in which the revolutionized administrative organization curated by Deloitte was presented, which also concerns the sphere of production (with the retirement of the director of the production organization Andrea Valioni). The point was made on the works of the Verdi building, which will finish shortly after the scheduled time, on the installation of the cameras for streaming which is practically completed (the experimental phase of filming has begun) and on the technological and IT renewal. Among other things, the call for tenders for the new site has been published.