In an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’ soprano Angela Gheorghiu gave her opinion on Alexander Pereira, the messy intendant who was punished by the Scala for having sold his Salzburg productions to Milan without even consulting the Board: « I can’t imagine why he has done something so bizarre, naïve and really incomprehensible. On the other hand all opera singers know him as a businessman, nothing more… certainly not an artistic director. (…) For me he has always been strange. After more than 20 years in this business he is the only artistic director who walks past me without saying hello.