Social and personal: Italian baritone marries his manager
mainCongratulations to Paolo Bordogna and his manager Adalberto Ruggeri who have tied the knot in Ozzano, near Bologna, within weeks of Italy recognising civil unions.
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Very nice news. But what would happen if the singer would want to change management, as so often happens in the profession?
He’ll do the same as the heterosexual ones do.
It’s called equality.
??
How does that change anything?
What if.
This looks like a vote of confidence in the current management.
What if the manager thinks it’s time for the singer to move on?
Presumably they would have discussed this kind of thing in advance…
He’ll end up giving fifteen percent to his management rather than (we hope) one hundred percent.
To adapt a phrase, if you marry your manager, do you not create a vacancy?
For a new manager, or a new artist?
Perhaps such conflicts of interest do not weigh heavily in the creative world.
But they can have grave consequences. Wagner married his manager Cosima, and see what happened: she cemented his erratic whims into an antisemitic establishment and cut short his attempt at adultery with Judith Gautier.
http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2012/10/read-now-wagner-at-home-judith-gautier.html
Congratulations. Bordogna is simply fantastic, both as a singer and as an actor. If you don’t know it, treat yourself to Bordogna as Mamma Agata in Donizetti’s “Viva la Mamma”, or rather “Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali”. Since Bordogna is the title character, you can hardly say that he “steals” the show, but he is magnificent in it anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f69eNz6NTU
Congratulations indeed, however it isn’t a full marriage just yet, as Italy hasn’t yet legalised same-sex marriage. In the words of Justice Ginsberg, Civil Unions are “skim milk marriage”.
Well, that avoids the vexing question of whether the union is consummated.