Singers plan legal action against Salzburg Festival
NewsA press conference has been called in Vienna next week to outline grievances by indisvidual singers against the elite event.
Invitation to the press conference on November 11th at 11:15 am in Café Landtmann Model lawsuit
against the Salzburg Festival
Venue: Landtmannsaal in Café Landtmann, Universitätsring 4, 1010 Vienna, a press breakfast will be provided
Organizers: Lawyer Petition for Freelancers, Austria
Florestan Initiative, Austria
Stand Up for Art, Germany
Speakers:
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke , Bavarian Kammersänger, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, bearer of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, attorney petition/standing up for art
Florian Krumpöck , pianist, conductor and festival director, VfGH findings on bans on entering culture, Florestan initiative
Martin Thoma-Stammler , freelance choir singer, model lawsuit against Salzburg Festival, lawyer’s petition for freelancers
Mag. Georg Streit , lawyer, model lawsuit against Salzburg Festival, lawyer’s petition for freelancers
Thank you to these brave singers who are speaking out!
You are supported and cheered on by the freelance singer community!
Could you please share, if you know, the nature of the grievances?
Thank you.
What are they “speaking out” against? What are their grievances?
Some no name artists frustrated by their minor careers.
See: https://www.kultursommer-semmering.at/spielplan
Catering (as it were) for some hotel guests.
I’d like to understand. What are the grievances?
“A press breakfast will be provided.”
Nothing signals an urgent, difficult revelation like some Viennese pastries and coffee.
Better take legal action against those German car industry sponsors and their political lobbyists!
The fine arts and music should not be misused as a platform to advertise technologies that feed on fossil fuels, pollute the air with emissions, cause global climate change, kill humans and animals, promote social discrepancy and envy, block public space, and act as dishonest symbols of prestige.
What are the complaints and criticisms referred to here?
I recall performing artists, incl. free-lancers, suffered great economic hardship during Covid times as many were locked out of opera houses, had their contracts broken by arts institutions which were in a bind to slash costs as their houses had been shut. Big name performers often had enough savings, etc., to weather the storm. Is this what this is about? If so, they have a valid point – but not an easy job ahead of them.
Now, Cafe Landtmann is a wonderful, non-rip-off place in Salzburg to go for Kaffe and Kuchen, or Kaiserschmarrn! It should prove a good draw for jaded journalists.