Teodor Currentzis in Salzburg: Beautiful art and dirty money – culture
Teodor Currentzis and his ensemble Music Aeterna are sponsored by two Kremlin-affiliated companies and have performed at Putin’s economic forum. Nevertheless, the Salzburg Festival is sticking to the opera opening premiere.
If there are strong forces of inertia in a country, then in Austria. Gustav Mahler summarized this in his much-cited assertion that tradition is “sloppiness” – which at the time referred to the unquestioned handling of conventions in musical performance practice, but can also possibly be transferred to other aspects of dealing with the traditional. Traditions and established structures are very strong in the Alpine Republic – especially where the social elite has always liked to bask in the light of art. Also at the Salzburg Festival. They will begin their opera performances in 2022 this Tuesday with a double evening: Béla Bartók’s one-act opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” and Carl Orff’s “De temporum fine comoedia” can be experienced first, translated: “The comedy from the end of time”.
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