Almost at the moment that Salzburg declared itself ready to put on a mini-festival, the Bregenz Festival called off its summer.
Bregenz operates by filling 7,000 seats on the floating stage.
The most it can hope for under eased regulations is 1,000.
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The hands vainly try to build a model of the virus. Could be an ideal backdrop for a new opera: ‘Covid and Corona’, with a plot circling around a love couple on a cruise ship which gets stuck at the coast of California. No doubt Philip Glass is already thinking about it.
The seats are stationary, the stadium seating is a concrete building on the bank of lake Constance, it’s the stage that floats.