Maestro Chung Myung-whun, recently appointed music director of Italy's Teatro alla Scala, described the new role as the ...

Conductor Chung Myung-whun is returning to Teatro alla Scala in Italy as its new music director, some 35 years after he first ...

Myung-whun Chung will be the first Asian, and one of the first conductors born outside Italy, to serve as music director in ...

South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of the famed Milan opera house, Teatro ...

A Peruvian-born international star, he made a specialty of roles in operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Mozart, becoming one of ...

With Une farouche liberté, the La Scala Paris theater will highlight the life and struggles of Gisèle Halimi, a major figure ...

Now La Scala in Milan is presenting three of those works in a single production, seen through today’s climate crisis. Modern dress, Brechtian alienation with onstage costume changes, and video ...

The appointment, announced on May 12, will take effect at the end of 2026, following the conclusion of Riccardo Chailly's ...

South Korean Conductor Myung-Whun Chung Named La Scala's First-Ever Asian Musical Conductor MILAN (AP) — South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of ...

La Scala noted his “close and productive” relationship with La Scala's orchestra, choir and philharmonic, and credited him with doing more than any other any non-musical director to raise La ...