On September 12 the Piermarini hall will be reopened to the public for the performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 conducted by Riccardo Chailly with the Choir prepared by Bruno Casoni and the voices of Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzosoprano), Michael König (tenor), Tomasz Konieczny (bass). This first show will be reserved only for healthcare personnel thanks to the support of the Bracco Foundation; three more evenings will follow on September 14, 16 and 17, open to the public.

The symphonic appointments will continue with Maestro Zubin Mehta, who on September 29, 30 and October 1 will conduct the Filarmonica della Scala in Vier letzte Lieder with soprano Camilla Nylund and in the symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss.

On October 14, 16 and 17 Maestro Mehta will lead the Orchestra, the Choir, the Academy White Voices Choir and the alto Daniela Sindram in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3.

The baroque concert conducted by Maestro Giovanni Antonini with the Orchestra del Teatro on historical instruments and the participation of the three countertenors Max Emanuel Cencic, Christophe Dumaux and Carlo Vistoli, scheduled for November 21, 22 and 24, will be resumed on a date to be defined.

All concerts are scheduled without intermission to reduce the opportunities for interpersonal contact.

The first title will be La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in concert form. It will be conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta for five performances on September 15, 18, 22, 25, 28. The main performers will be Marina Rebeka (Violetta), Atalla Ayan (Alfredo) and Leo Nucci. It is the first time that Maestro Mehta conducts this title at La Scala, where he made his debut in 1978.

On October 6, 9, 12, 15, Maestro Riccardo Chailly will conduct Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in concert form. The peculiarity of the performance, in addition to the prestigious cast formed by Saioa Hernández, Anita Rachvelishvili, Francesco Meli and Luca Salsi, is that on this occasion will be performed for the first time in front of the public the original version of the beginning of Act III found in Villa Sant'Agata. It is more than 100 bars, for a total of eight minutes of music including a lost version of the priests' choir, later reworked in the Requiem.

On October 19 the planned performance of Aida in concert form will be replaced by a concert of arias and choirs from the works Aida, Nabucco and La bohème directed by Maestro Fabio Luisi with the participation of the artists Anita Hartig, Aida Garifullina, Jonas Kaufmann and Simone Piazzola.

Three great stars of the opera will perform between October 20 and 22: Tuesday 20 Marina Rebeka, accompanied by pianist Giulio Zappa, will present a repertoire ranging from Verdi to Kjui, from Tchaikovsky to Rachmaninov; Wednesday 21 Anna Netrebko will return to La Scala conducted by Riccardo Chailly, interpreting some of the greatest arias of the Italian repertoire, taken from Aida, Don Carlo, Gioconda, Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut; finally, on Thursday 22, the great German tenor Jonas Kaufmann will present a Lieder florilegy together with the excellent pianist Helmut Deutsch.

On November 4, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17 the perfomances of La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, in the historical staging by Franco Zeffirelli (1963) will be cancelled. The show will be directed by Paolo Carignani and two important cast members take turns on stage: Marina Rebeka and Angel Blue as Mimì, Giorgio Berrugi and Charles Castronovo as Rodolfo, Aida Garifullina and Federica Guida as Musetta, George Petean and Simone Piazzola as Marcello, Giulio Mastrototaro and Mattia Olivieri as Schaunard.

From September 23 the Corps de Ballet will stage the Ballet Gala, a tribute to dance replicated for three more evenings (September 24 and 26 and October 2). The étoiles of the Scala Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle will participate; Alessandra Ferri will be a special guest in the Theatre to which she has inextricably linked her name; the artists of the Scala Ballet will be engaged in several 'a solo' or 'steps for two'. On the podium Maestro David Coleman.

Giselle, the romantic ballet par excellence, scheduled for October 29 and 30, and then on November 3, 5, 6, 11, 13, 18 in the version taken from Coralli-Perrot on the choreography by Yvette Chauviré (extraordinary artist who recently passed away), with sets and costumes by Aleksandr Benois reworked by Angelo Sala and Cinzia Rosselli, and David Coleman, is currently cancelled.

The performances of The Cinderella for children (a reduction of Rossini's work as part of the project Grandi Opere per Piccoli) directed by Pietro Mianiti, scheduled for November 7, 8, 29 will be resumed on a date to be defined.

On October 11 the Cameristi della Scala - Fabrizio Meloni, Darko Brlek and Massimo Mercelli - conducted by Ernest Hoetzl, will perform a programme between classical and contemporary language. The family concert of the La Scala's Strings, scheduled for October 25, is postponed to a date to be defined.

Also postponed the concert on November 22 at the end of the first edition of "La Scala fa Scuola. A Choir in the City", an educational project promoted in collaboration with the TIM Foundation.

The Filarmonica della Scala will resume playing with the "Concerto per l'Italia" conducted by Riccardo Chailly in Piazza del Duomo on September 13, with the participation of violinist Maxim Vengerov. Afterwards a series of concerts with six double dates from October 4 to November 29 at Teatro alla Scala: on the podium will go Riccardo Chailly, Pablo Heras-Casado, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Leonidas Kavakos and Marc Albrecht.

The autumn season is enriched by two major piano events united by the Beethovenian programme. Maurizio Pollini will perform the last Sonatas on September 27; Daniel Barenboim will close the 2019/2020 Season on December 5 with the execution of the Diabelli Variations.

The Singing Recital Season will resume on October 4 with Erwin Schrott, followed by Marina Rebeka on October 20 (both will be accompanied by Giulio Zappa). The singing recital of Sabine Devieilhe with Alexandre Tharaud, scheduled on November 19 and the opening of the Recital Season 2020/2021 with Simon Keenlyside, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, scheduled on December 3 are postponed to a date to be defined.

Three extraordinary singing concerts see as many great voices return to La Scala: on October 22 Jonas Kaufmann, accompanied on piano by Helmut Deutsch; the performance of Anna Netrebko and Elena Maximova, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineauil and violinist Giovanni Andrea Zanon, scheduled for November 15 is cancelled; on November 30 appointment with Plácido Domingo and the Academy Orchestra.

Also postponed the Academy's institutional concert, scheduled for October 24, in which the students of the Accademia di perfezionamento per cantanti lirici del Teatro alla Scala, accompanied by the Academy Orchestra conducted by Pietro Mianiti, will be protagonists. The concert programme includes arias and ensemble pieces from operas by Bellini, Cimarosa, Donizetti, Rossini, Bizet, Verdi, Ponchielli, Saint-Saëns.

The Teatro alla Scala will also host the traditional concerts of the G. Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milano, that will perform music by Mahler and Janáček with Claus Peter Flor and soprano Petra Lang on September 20. In addition, Milano Musica on October 18 will present a piano recital by Mariangela Vacatello. The concert by the Rai Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale conducted by Tito Ceccherini with Maurizio Baglini at the piano, scheduled for November 16, is currently cancelled.