Blacklist: Vienna disinvites Currentzis
NewsThe brief showdown between a Ukrainian conductor and a Putin-funded Greek is over.
The Vienna Festival has dropped Teodor Currentzis from its programme after an ultimatum from Oksana Lyniv.
The Greek had been due to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the German SWR Symphony Orchestra. The irony of his invitation to do so must have got lost in transmission.
Lyniv is due to conduct Babyn Yar by a Ukrainian compatriot, Jevhen Stankovych.
‘In discussions over the last few days, it became clear that presenting both concerts as part of the Vienna Festival is currently not feasible,’ said the organisers. ‘Unfortunately, there was no alternative to our decision to cancel the planned concert conducted by Teodor Currentzis, whom we value very much as an artist’ said festival director Milo Rau.
These shitty Ukrainian politics
Back to your mortal and pestel Ms. Yaga….
Last time I checked it was ruzzia who invaded Ukraine and went on a killing, raping and looting spree. Friends of yours, I presume?
At last.
(For the record, I can’t stand Currentzis as a person and an artist.) but …
Regarding the Vienna Festival dropping him, this is a terrible solution and sets a terrible precedent. If anybody should go, it should be the festival’s director Milo Rau. How can anyone be so incompetent as to not foresee the unavoidable conflict of presenting these two conductors with these works side by side?
The German-speaking world continues to embarrass itself with its total lack of creativity and ingenuity in dealing with tricky issues. No one has embraced cancel-culture as enthusiastically as they. This issue could have been dealt with in so many different ways (e.g. changing repertoire). Now the festival has broken a contract, which must have severe financial consequences.
I hope that the Ukrainian conductor is required to split her fee with Currentzis. At the end of the day, she was hired by the festival. If she can’t accept the terms, then she should gracefully exit and not make threats.
“I do not support genocide, but…”
“…but,” it’s okay to make an exception for Bibi. God forbid, If an occupied people should be allowed liberation and self-governance without having to ask for permission to go to the bathroom or be used as fodder for the expansion of a Greater Israel. We must continue to apply international law unfairly, by all means! How many reporters and innocent civilians has Currentzis killed thus far? Zilch!
Politics 1 : Music 0
Music 0……..have you heard any of Currentzis’ recordings? Try the Tchaikovsky 6th. The engineering makes Phase 4 stereo sound realistic and as for C’s liner notes…….utter drivel that makes Celibidache sound like a great philosopher. So maybe a revision of your scoreline………….
We all enthusiastically do business with China – the major ally of Russia – but when it comes to individual artists it’s not OK.
Stop the hypocrisy. Low hanging fruit isn’t the answer.
Funny thing is, to get to the Babyn Yar memorial in Kiev, one needs to drive along Stepana Bandery Avenue. That’s where the irony is!
But after they named a street in Odessa after the man who called Adolf Hitler “the real Messiah” it’s a tough job to surprise me.
The same old tired propaganda from russian trolls.
You can use google maps to verify.
Da, what comrade Yuri (not Sergey, tooootally different and not paid troll) saying.
Happy egg day. You still owe Ivan egg Sergey.
Dorogoi Vanya. Kolya still has bublitchki. Azov battalion stole egg for Hitler shrine. Will discuss with comrades at next troll convention. Please provide directions. Vanya knows things and eggsactly how to egg on eggceptionally well. Kolya now eggxiting.
Maestra Lyniv is not a very talented, but politically active careerist. She simply got rid of the competitor, it’s obvious.