Tales of Salzburg’s saviour … the house doctor
NewsIf you fall ill during the Salzburg Festival, whether as a performer, stagehand or anyone else, the likelihood is that the next face you’ll see belongs to the house doctor, Josef Schlömicher-Thier.
An ear, nose and throat specialist in in Neumarkt am Wallersee, he has been the official festival doctor for three decades. One of his first emergencies was to save Placido Domingo’s voice in 1992. Others have been more life threatening.
Through the two summer months, he maintains his own morning clinic in Neumarkt and an afternoon surgery at the festival. He reckons only five percent of his patients are artists.
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He is really fantastic. What he must have been going through during last year and this year’s Festival was and is heroic and he does all this with a wonderfully calm and professional bedside manner.