kaiser to pick up pieces
Kennedy Center head Michael Kaiser will assist the New York City Opera in finding a new leader and scheduling a 2009-10 season following the departure of Gerard Mortier. [via AP]
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here’s a crazy idea: look for a turn-around expert from outside the arts …
Audi? Alden? All these guys are booked a decade or so in advance. What they will get is whoever is sitting by his phone waiting for a call? Say your prayers.
You think Mortier took the NYCO call because he wanted to stroll down 5th Avenue? He took the call because nobody else – after he wrecked companies all over Europe – wanted him.
If Mortier would have been allowed to have stayed in Paris (rather than being forced out due to being 65) I think he’d be there for years to come. He is highly respected within the company and the company has done well under his leadership. Like him or not, he brings attention to companies and sells a lot of tickets.
Audi has a great thing going in Amsterdam (a far better company at this point that NYCO). Why would he want to step backwards. The Alden brothers also have great artistic engagements in many theaters around the world. Why would they want to curtail that for NYCO?
The NYCO is simply not all that attractive of a position and with the behemoth next door, it makes it even tougher to bring in a big name chief. I don’t think that NY on the whole is the culture capitol it once was and is less attractive to many of the Europeans than it once was.
Replace Baker with someone well respected and with strong financial abilities, and then you get a quality figure to run the company as general director, and let HIM/HER then hire the artistic direction. That is the usual order and the proven order for success. Baker’s whimsical flirtation wiht Mortier is what created this mess in the first place. That and Mr Paullson’s masturbations.
They deserve what they get.
Alas, we get it too.
No. 12, it will be news to many that the Paris Opera has been “wrecked.”
And there are MANY who would say he was the best thing to happen to stodgy Salzburg. He revived that festival like few others could.
wenarto I think you like that Siegfried poster because he is waving a big red hot poker! No?
Kaiser as savior? Laughable!
He did a similar turn at American Ballet Theatre where during and after his tenure production standards – i.e. essential theater craft – were lamentable. His impact is felt to this day.
Apparently Gelb can turn gold to lead. Le Page is one
of the very great stage directors of the last 50 years.
You’d never would have thought that from the kitsch-fest
‘Damnation’ recently unveiled. Gelb has yet to premiere a production of genuine distinction.
Mortier was NYC’s great hope. Compare the
Mortier-era ‘Damnation’ [Salzburg - La Fura del Baus]
with the Met’s item. It’s on DVD – take a look!