Sydney cancels Jessye Norman
mainSydney Sings, a July festival organised by Leo Schofield and promising big names, has been called off at less than a month’s notice.
The official reasons is the ‘sudden illness of the event’s executive director Jarrod Carland‘.
We wish him better.
Behind cupped hands, there are suggestions the Government failed to deliver on a past minister’s promises.
The highlights were supposed to be Jessye Norman giving a masterclass and a 600-voice choir in Carmina Burana.
There’s an election in Australia on 2nd July.
Leo Scofield has an excellent track record as an arts administrator and promoter but the official reason beggars belief! I wonder if that is covered in the force majeure clause which must be in Ms. Norman’s contract. If not, she will presumably collect a substantial fee.
A least we’ve all been spared yet another Carmina Burana – thank God.:-)