The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House

Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now he’s at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, financially stabilized after years of crisis, with the brief of bringing back artistic glory. Here he talks about the ingenious ways he’s kept staffers working through the pandemic, the neglected Neapolitan operas he wants to revive, and why he’s much more sympathetic to