Italian opera buffs, Milan’s Mayor and La Repubblica newspaper were angry and amazed when news from Austria revealed that the Salzburg Festival’s current director, Alexander Pereira, was selling seven of its productions to La Scala, where Pereira will take over in October of this year. That is, he was selling his productions to himself. A conflict of interests?
La Repubblica asked one of their top journalists, Natalia Aspesi, to get to the bottom of things, and she spoke with Pereira in Moscow.
I want to let Milan know immediately the type of sovrintendente I’ll be, and the type of productions I want to do there, so I have chosen the best of the Festival.
It was also falsely reported that all seven productions would be in the same season, whereas they will be spread over the first three seasons:
The four titles from Salzburg that will be divided over the 2015 and 2016 seasons cost Salzburg €4,450,000, and the Milanese theatre will get them at €690,000 each; a very good price.… [continue reading]
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