But can she manage Barenboim?
UncategorizedThe director of the Bregenz Festival, Elisabeth Sobotka, is about to be announced as incoming general director of the Berlin Staatsoper on Unter den Linden, starting in 2024.
Her predecessor Schulz is leaving for the Zurich Opera House.
Sobotka, 56, worked at the Staatsoper 15 years ago and is popular with the staff, especially with the anti-Barenboim factions.
This could turn into a battleground.
I like and admire Barenboim in the main but I think he is slowing down a lot lately. I saw him walking last year in Salzburg and he really is beginning to feel the years by the look of him. And now he has a serious vascular issue.
He may not even be working much by 2024
Someone has to do it.
Who will follow DB?
Plenty! None of us are indispensible in life.
Thielemann?
This really pure nonsense without any relevance. She was always very close to Barenboim. Not only when she worked in Berlin but also in the time since she left. Barenboim tried for a long time to convince her to come back.
Barenboim will be over 80. will he have
the strength to argue with the good lady.
Barenboim will argue and bully no matter what age he reaches.
She’ll be fine. She has a great track record, including Graz.
Timely for someone new. I have never rated Barenboim very highly and he should know when it’s time to hang up the baton.
Nobody does, especially when the ego is bigger than anything else…
Maybe, but alas he does not have that much self awareness regarding either his pianism or conducting, both of which are C- mediocre
I quite agree. I have always thought him very overrated.
I’m a bit surprised by all the positive comments…. Those who have worked with her can attest to her being a tyrant, who treats singers like dirt.
I wonder what “” the anti-Barenboim factions.””” can mean in her head.
Noneless I don’t think anyone can replace DB let it be Pianist and Conductor.
He had his style.
His best days are over.
No one will forget him.
I will cherish all the recordings I heard of him.
Barenboim will need to quit rather sooner than later.
She can!
Elisabeth Sobotka is brilliant. THey could not have made a better choice.
great choice. Is anyone naive enough to think it was made without Barenboim’s approval ? Furthermore the Staatsoper would never have survived after the fall of communism without Barenboim’s commitment, prestige and political skill !!
That‘s overblown hyperbole.
Of course the traditional institution Berliner Staatsoper would have survived also without Barenboim. Nobody argues his merits though for firmly establishing the house and its orchestra at the very top within the diverse Berlin scene. He managed to get additional funding, that maybe others would not have achieved, maybe. But the house would of course have survived nevertheless.
Overall his presence in Berlin was a blessing, even if some getting too close to the sun got burned.
Barenboims Zeit ist schon seit einiger Zeit abgelaufen. Auch er muss einsehen, dass man rechtzeitig abtreten muss, bevor man über ihn lacht. Außerdem sind seine menschlichen Seiten gegenüber Künstlern und Untergebenen sehr erbärmlich! Ich bin Musiker, ich weiß wovon ich rede …..
I wish these stupid speculations could cease once and for all. Do you ever ask yourself ” is it true” before you publish something?
Toscanini, Solti, Maazel, Celibidache in Stuttgart Zeiten auch nicht sehr gut verträglich