‘We fly in Russian artists via Abu Dhabi and Istanbul’
UncategorizedDietmar Schwartz, director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, has been outlining some of the difficulties of staging next year’s Simon Boccanegra with a Moscow director, Vasily Barkhatov, and his team.
‘We are in contact with the Barkhatov team,’ he said. ‘The set designer can no longer withdraw money. He has to come here from Moscow because the workshops want to start production…’
Barkhatov, 38, ‘has family, his mother, in Moscow. Those are the constraints artists are currently under. Nothing can be taken for granted any more.’
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