The summer ends with a festival whimper
NewsSalzburg has staged its last major premiere of the month and the feeling is the festival has been well below standard.
The Bayreuth Ring was booed off the stage.
Edinburgh has managed one secondhand opera and failed to put on a Beethoven 9th. Its classical content has seldom been duller.
The BBC Proms this week consist of an Aretha Franklin tribute, an Australian orchestra, Rattle conducts Mahler again, a BBC Brahms-Franck concert, a drop-in from Finnish Radio and music from the BBC’s natural history series. Nobody’s rushing to buy tickets.
The lack of managerial energy is palpable.
What can be done to restore it?
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