La Scala, the bastion of Italian opera which has premiered works by Rossini and Verdi in its 200-year history, is to hand over creative control to the man who gave the world dead parrots, the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Knights Who Say Ni.
Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python member and film director, will take on the world's most knowledgeable and demanding opera-goers next July with his opera debut, a staging of Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, the tale of the poet guillotined during the French revolution.
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