La Scala has released its new ballet season for 2016-2017. Not surprisingly, the new Ballet Director. Mauro Bigonzetti, is putting his mark on the season with a new production of Coppélia which he will choreograph to launch the season. Bigonzetti long-standing collaborator Eugenio Scigliano will create a new version of Sheherazade, while in the same evening, Bigonzetti will ‘supervise’ choreography created by members of the La Scala Ballet set to Ravel’s La Valse, an idea which sounds as though it should belong to a Dance Festival or a dancing school’s End-of-Term Show, rather than a major subsidised opera house.