Cologne terminates its opera chief
mainThe city has told Opernintendantin Birgit Meyer it won’t extend her contract beyond 2022.
The reason? She has been there 10 years and they want a new face.
Beyond that? The bill for rebuilding the opera will top a billion Euros, four times the approved estimate.
Someone has to pay that price and it won’t be the politicians.
Meyer, 60, gave up a flourishing medical practice in order to work in a crisis-ridden art form. She deserves better treatment.
Good decision for Cologne. Tell me one music professional in Cologne and around who was not complaining about her.
That’s cheap. I mean the Cologne behaviour. But then again, in North Rhine-Westphalia, not many things work these days.
Terminate? Sounds rather drastic….
I read the title of this post very differently, but fortunately my concern appeared unfounded.