Falling maestro: ‘If I was in the audience, maybe I wouldn’t like Teodor Currentzis’
NewsSome selected thoughts from the fast-retreating Greek-Russian conductor:
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What is the point of such a video? Why one strings together any statements that were obviously made over several years, during different interviews, completely incoherently? No matter with whom one will organize such a thing, whether Kleiber, Kosky, Thielemann, Bieto, Argerich or Levit, in the end only garbage comes out, no matter how profound the artist is, can or could be.
>> in the end only garbage comes out, no matter how profound the artist is, can or could be.
Or isn’t.
Astounding that this is what passes for journalism these days. A link to a youtube clip.
The less we hear about this one the better.
A perfect lesson in how to rob a poor city in Russia of 1 million dollars while talking utter bollocks, (leaving all its schools, hospitals & theatre employees on survival money), creating a horrible personality cult, plus hyping that horrible guy Diaghilev and a fake festival with obscene PR budgets.
Theodor the conman.
When are you selling up your property in PERM and leaving for good?
Who invited you?
How do we get rid of you?
I have only read SD for a few months and did consider a subscription, but after the rage-bait article (now deleted, but I will find the cache) about the Viennese flocking to hear Russian orchestras showing a poster from 2018, I have got some serious doubt about Norman Lebrecht’s journalistic abilities. It seems that everything regarding Vienna or Russia makes him erupt with anger. Perhaps satisfying for him; uninteresting for us. Hence, I see no journalistic value in posts like this.
The ultimate overrated narcissist.
If I WERE in the audience…
I HAVE BEEN in the audience (not out of choice it must be said), many times.
Watched TC attempt to rehearse, and more.
I assisted Udo R give singing classes inc his festival in Monthodon.
Watched wonderful Gundula’s class in Germany (now 85) , as well as worked with Maciej P, and D Selig.
Nothing I ever saw from this Greek tosser Correntzis ever came close to the level of those excellent and often self effacing musicians who in the case of MP worked for long periods with both Van Dam (now 82) , and Fleming (now 63).
A. Weird. B. He’s just not a great conductor nor has he true insight into the music. He loves playing the enfant terrible, making a splash, walking around sleeveless and rewriting Mozart. And he’s not as good as André Rieu when it comes to Rameau (judging by his Rameau evening in Salzburg 2 years ago from which I walked…).
Well, I agree with his disapproval of opera directors who change the plot.