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2017-09-14 08:57:01
Vienna Opera boss: I never paid for a singer’s taxi
The former director of the Vienna State Opera, Ioan Holender, has given a grouchy interview to Die Presse in which he insists that he never rode in taxs or stayed in five-star hotels. Singers who asked him to pay their taxi ride from the airport were bluntly refused. He maintains the top nightly fee at […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-01-29 19:54:07
Bucharest is paying a tenor six times as much as Vienna
Ioan Holender, the Romanian-born former head of the Vienna State Opera, has issued a stinging attack on the hapless administration at Bucharest National Opera. Here’s what he says, in part: I found out that [Beatrice Rancea, interim manager of BNO] paid 80.000€ to Roberto Alagna for singing two arias at a so called “Opera Gala”. At Staatsoper Wien the maximum fee is 12.400€, while at La Scala, where Alagna is no longer invited, the fee is 15.000€. I don’t know how much she paid to the Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas – him too in his late autumn of his career – for his Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, but his weak performance has been heard. Holender goes on to criticise the ‘shameful’ forced departure of ballet chiefs Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru and the failure of Andrei Șerban’s new production of Lehar’s Merry Widow, running four and a half hours. […]
2016-05-30 15:00:41
Evensong
When Neil Shicoff celebrated the 40th anniversary of his 1975 stage debut as Ernani in Cincinnati, no one had any idea that it would, essentially, mark the end of his career. In 2014 he added the roles of Canio (at Wiener Staatsoper) and Calaf (at Volksoper Wien) to his repertoire to great acclaim. Indeed, speaking with him just a few months between those debuts, we talked about other roles which he was considering. He also discounted the idea of managing an opera company after the bizarre situation where he was considered by the press and public to be the de facto successor to Ioan Holender as Intendant of Staatsoper, and was shaken by the unexpected decision by the Austrian government in 2007 to give the job to Dominique Meyer Shicoff was so upset by the decision that he withdrew from a new production of Benvenuto Cellini at Salzburg that summer. […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-04-28 11:29:55
Chaos in Romania as Culture Minister is sacked
[…] because they want to bring to light the truth and return the institution to legality and morality. Please note that no operating system NOB brought our institution in this impossible situation, but disastrous management team’s Răzvan-Ioan Dincă, currently under criminal trial. We ask insistently DNA (national anti-coruption agency – p.n.) to investigate urgently the economic and financial situation of the Bucharest National Opera. We also believe that the statements of Mr. Ioan Holender is a defamation of employees NOB and an attempt to destabilize the national culture. We call on all operas and philharmonic orchestras of Romania to join our campaign to preserve tradition and national value and eradicate abuse and fraud in the current cultural system. Specify in this way, we grieve the resignation of Mr Vlad Alexandrescu from the Minister of Culture. We believe that His Excellency has done a tremendously important and […]
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