The ORF doesn’t normally send a camera crew to capture FWM bitching
about Regietheater with Peter Stein, so one of his indignantly-expressed
revelations was inevitable at a Positionslichter talk held earlier today at the
Wiener Staatsoper. Having looked at the finalized programme for Salzburg 2013, as
the man who the other day complained about tabloidization and headline-grabbing
explained to ZIB 1’s 1.5 million viewers, Franzi has decided that three
performances of Così in five days is
unacceptable for the singers and he won’t be conducting a 2013-5 Da Ponte
cycle after all. This new-found concern for Mozart singers comes about a week
or so after he signed off a December Probeplan for the Staatsoper that will see
ensemble members cover a Christmas Zauberflöte – three performances over a week
– unrehearsed. Different opera, different circumstances, but still:
unrehearsed.
Franzi not only got a spot on the 19:30 news, but cleverly
timed the bombshell so that Salzburg would not be able to respond. Helga
Rabl-Stadler and Alexander Pereira are in Milan until Tuesday, officially to
present the Salzburg 2013 programme to the Italian press, unofficially for
Pereira to lobby for Scala GM.
APA report picked up by Der Standard available (de) here.
Comments include ‘what the hell, he’s not an especially good Mozart conductor
anyway’ and ‘shame he doesn’t cancel more engagements in Vienna’.
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