Chailly conducts the opera, his fifth premiere in 40 years with La Scala.
“Attila” was chosen years ago by musical director Chailly to be the second in a trilogy dedicated to Verdi’s early works, starting with “Giovanna d’Arco,” which opened the 2015-16 season, and “Macbeth,” which has yet to be announced. The timing of the “Attila” premiere - against a backdrop of increasing populism, global insecurity and women’s rising power via the #MeToo movement and U.S. Several government ministers attended alongside Mattarella, but none of the country’s populist leaders. 7 premiere is a highlight of the European cultural calendar, the audience was mostly filled with Milan VIPS. After the performance, Chailly said that the president told him that music and culture were “the bastions of democracy.” It is very justified an applause of this length seeing the commitment and difficulty that he has had confronted and is confronting,” Chailly said. More practically, theatrical performances showed audiences that political change really was possible, making the newly engaged spectator in the opera house into an actor on the political stage.“Mattarella is serving an extraordinary mandate. Among the lessons taught by this music were that rules enforced by artistic tradition could be broken, that opera could jolt spectators into intense feeling even as it educated them, and that Italy could be in the vanguard of stylistic and technical innovation rather than clinging to the glories of centuries past.
Capturing what it was like to attend the opera or to join in the music at an aristocratic salon, Waiting for Verdi shows that the moral dilemmas, emotional reactions, and journalistic polemics sparked by these performances set new horizons for what Italians could think, feel, say, and write. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas-along with those by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante-did inspire Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation. The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad.
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