Berlin conductor to help La Scala

Conductor Daniel Barenboim will take on a prominent role at La Scala, more than a year after Riccardo Muti resigned as music director at the opera house in Milan, Italy, the theater said Wednesday.

Barenboim will have “a long and continuous working relationship” but will not step into Muti’s place as music director, said Carlo Maria Cella, a La Scala spokesman. The conductor’s work in Milan will take place within a wide-ranging collaboration between La Scala and Berlin’s Staatsoper, of which Barenboim is general music director, Cella said.