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Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destino, conducting his ninth Verdi title at La Scala. Leo Muscato will direct yet another cast of extraordinary prestige. A complex opera in terms of dramaturgy, first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862 and debuting in its final form at La Scala in 1869 with the creation of the famous overture, La forza del destino offers some of the most memorable Verdi melodies. It has been absent from the programme since the Verdi centennial in 2001, when it was brought to La Scala by the artists of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg; the La Scala Orchestra and Choir have not performed it since 1999.

In a time of financial precariousness and descent into poverty, two brothers in Apulia lose everything they own.

The god of fire, Hephaestus, nails the rebel Prometheus to a rock in Scythia (between Poland, Kazakhstan, and southeastern Ukraine) under the watchful eye of Cratos (Power) and Bia (Force). Prometheus is punished for giving fire to mankind.