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Article: AP INTERVIEW: Barenboim debuts as principal guest conductor at Milan's La Scala with Wagner
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- December 4, 2007
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Daniel Barenboim makes his debut as La Scala's principal visiting conductor with a gala premiere of "Tristan und Isolde" on Friday night.
Opening the season with Wagner on Verdi turf might seem a provocation, but Barenboim's six-season arrangement with La Scala will be an exercise in cross fertilizing Italian and German operatic traditions as he shuttles between Milan and Berlin, where he is the Staatsoper's music director.
"It is not an act of globalization but it is an act of cosmopolitan thinking," the celebrated conductor and pianist told The Associated Press in a backstage interview between rehearsals.
This season, Barenboim will conduct ...