If there were any doubts that Italy's premiere opera house can be a lively kind of place, the events of the last couple of weeks serve as a reminder. First, rumors swirled around the successor to the early-departing Daniel Barenboim (though there seem to be no hard feelings on either side there), with some lining up behind Riccardo Chailly, others claiming that Fabio Luisi was the anointed one. Then, one of the theater's notorious booing incidents, as leading Polish tenor Piotr Beczała felt the wrath of the self-opinionated few in the gods. But there will be cheers and champagne today, after confirmation, reported by the New York Times, that Chailly will indeed take over in 2015.
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