Mr. Conductor, if you please!
Which A-list Dirigent is currently unwinding in a private facility, singing duets with himself?
Which opera company’s usually jovial antegenerale audience erupted into a lion’s den of booing when the maestro took his bow? (By the way, the tenor bought it too.)
Thanks Warmke, but no – excellent work would be someone telling us WHICH sanatorium he’s in, and what kind of scene he caused this time. Anyone??
Seriously everyone, mental illness is a very sad thing and not to be laughed about (cough! cough!)
Hmmmm. I was surprised when my friend singing in Staatsoper’s Macbeth texted me to the effect that Gatti was suddenly no longer at the helm of this new production… If this item doesn’t refer to Gatti, there’s still a story there…
Weiner Staatsoper, that is
More likely “Wiener Staatsoper”.
According to the statement from Vienna, he has been ordered to rest for a lengthy period. (“Auf ärztliche Anweisung ist der Dirigent für längere Zeit zu absoluter Schonung gezwungen.”)
I wonder what will become of his first engagement in Zurich as “Chefdirigent”, a revival of Elektra which opens on January 23.
I’m not surprised if it’s him. The man works non-thefuck-stop. In October, two days before the Aida matinee, he was here in Philadelphia conducting a beautiful Brahms 1 and a, well, Italianate Mendelssohn Italian Symphony. That was Thursday and Friday. Saturday at 1 he was in the pit at the Met, then right back down to Philly to conduct the strings et al again that night.
David Patrick Stearns in the Inquirer wrote that Gatti would make a great contender for the MD position in Philly, but after the financial trouble the past year and the tumultuous Eschenbach years, I hope he’s not so unstable, because if he gets the job, the last thing Philly needs right now is someone who is crazy. I’m also not sure that getting in line behind Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti, and Sawallisch would do wonders for the nerves.
Makes one pause and think about the ‘tizzy merry -go-round grid’ artists get caught up on. Negotiating their way around forms of human pressure – 24/7: in their quest for success and famous recognition. It is fortunate for most of us to be able to just go to a performance or sit down at home and listen. As they say “All that glitters is not gold!”.