Bertrand de Billy and Simone Young also conduct a lot at the Staatsoper, and are slightly better conductors than the previous names. Just look at the list of mediocre conductors who have been given a prominent role at the Staatsoper since Roscic was appointed- Eun Sun Kim, Thomas Guggeis, Alexander Soddy, Ramón Tebar, Yoel Gamzou, Joana Mallwitz, Sebastian Weigle. Roscic may be the public figurehead of the Staatsoper, but the man actually in charge and running everything behind the scenes is Michael Lewin. They are going to play a large factor in who is appointed the next GMD. The Staatsoper is the Staatsoper in large part due to the fact that they have one of the best orchestras playing in the pit night after night. Philippe Jordans contract was not renewed for one main reason- he did not have the orchestras, the Vienna Phil, vote.
The programme is all Schein and no Sein – all for show and no existential substance.Ĭurrentzis, come to think of it, could be ideal.Ĭurrentzis will never happen. Christian Thielemann will be next on his list (he will refuse) and there is no shortage of mid-career maestros who will want to add Gustav Mahler’s old job to their CVs.īut the job these days is worthless. Bogdan Roščić will already have put in a call to his former Sony artist Teodor Currentzis, a timely call since Currentzis has just lost his job in Stuttgart.
Still there will be no shortage of applicants for the vacant music director’s post.
Musical considerations are never going to be uppermost in a house that depends on passing tourist trade and transient political connections. Much the same happened with Franz Welser-Möst in 2014 and, before that, with Claudio Abbado in 1991. Philippe Jordan’s weekend declaration that he will quit the Vienna Sate Opera no later than 2025 suggests that communication has broken down – again – between the director on the top floor and the conductor in the pit.
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