Alexander Pereira’s tenure as the general manager of the Teatro alla Scala, the renowned opera house in Milan, will begin a year earlier than he and the company had originally planned.
When theater announced Mr. Pereira’s appointment, in June, the plan was that he would take over in October 2015, when Stéphane Lissner, who has held the post since 2005, takes over the Paris Opera. Mr. Pereira, in any case, was busy: he was the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, with a contract that ran until 2016. Mr. Pereira had planned for a year in which his two jobs overlapped, but the Salzburgers felt differently, and decided to end his contract in Sept. 2014, instead.
The board at La Scala, seeing an opportunity to shorten the waiting time between administrations, voted on Wednesday to reconfigure its schedule. Now, the company said in a statement, Mr. Lissner will hand the reins to Mr. Pereira on Oct. 1, 2014.
One of Mr. Pereira’s early tasks will be to identify a successor to Daniel Barenboim as the company’s artistic director. Mr. Barenboim’s contract ends in 2016, and Mr. Pereira is known to favor installing an Italian conductor in the post.
