Stuttgart: Russians hacked our opera house
NewsFederal and state police in Baden-Württemberg have identified a suspect in a 2019 blackmail hack attack on the Stuttgart State Opera.
The attack shut down the house’s IT infrastructure until a ransom of 15,000 Euros was paid to unlock the encryption. The suspect is a member of several identified Russian malware groups that are tolerated or fostered by the Putin government.
It may be no more than coincidence that Stuttgart has been a persistent supporter of the theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, who remains under house arrest in Russia.
Stuttgart’s new production of Bertolt Brecht and Paul Dessau’s rarely performed opera, “The Condemnation of Lucullus”, premieres tomorrow, 1 November. Perhaps they should rename it “The Condemnation of Putin”.
https://www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/spielplan/a-z/die-verurteilung-des-lukullus/
With Gerhard Siegel as Lucullus and Cheryl Studer as Tertullia, among a large cast.
A noble gesture to resurrect this 70-year-old work.
Pity about the weak production team.
Better to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpAhjKL0lF8
Kirill Serebrennikov doesn’t remain under house arrest. He was freed from it in April 2019. He can’t leave Russia because he has to pay back a large sum of money (the money allegedly embezzled), that’s all. And he was never a “dissident”, he never fought against the government – if he did, he wouldn’t have made any career. And he worked for television, theater, cinema – all state-owned. He’s an “provocateur” – using vulgar language and nudity on stage. And when Russia started to promote “traditional values”, he fell out of favor. That’s all.
That’s utter crap!
You love to make a twat of yourself in public?
Some of us live in the Russia you are paid to corrupt.
He didn’t embezzle a kopek, and that’s sure.
For those who followed the Serebrennikov affair, it’s a litmus test for both crappy Putin trolls, (who like to post on here!), and those who know the truth of the story.
If Serebrennikov was a provocateur, then try Jim Morrison.
Now he’s known for being one of the greatest rock poets of the 60s…..WAAAAYY ahead of that boring Dylan guy who got a Nobel!