We name the musical heroes of this Covid summer
UncategorizedLet’s have a little shout-out for the ones who defied the odds and kept the music live and connected, the ones who justified their jobs with a display of creative ingenuity. Here goes:
1 Helga Rabl-Stadler and Markus Hinterhäuser at the Salzburg Festival
Managed two operas and full concert programme without casualties
2 Antonio Moral
Had the summer’s best piano festival in Granada, Spain
3 Roger Wright at Britten-Pears Arts
First off the UK mark with an audience-open festival
4 John Gilhooly at London’s Wigmore Hall
Kept up programming ‘with or without audience’
5 Tomer Zvulun at Atlanta Opera
Taking his shows around town in a Big Tent
6 Teatro Comunale of Bologna
Moved into a basketball drome
7 Stuart Murphy at English National Opera
Pioneered drive-in opera
8 Ostrava Philharmonic, Czech Rep.
First in Europe with an audience
9 Teatro Real, Madrid, for a genuinely reimagined La Traviata
10 Arena di Verona
(pictured)
Who have we forgotten?
11 Cameron Carpenter, who drove his organ around Berlin care homes
12 Festival della Valle d’Itria
In Martina Franca, Italy, opened mid-July with “Bürger als Edelmann”, followed by the original version of “Ariadne auf Naxos.
13 Paavo Järvi
Kept up his Festival in Pärnu, Estonia
14 The Fidelio Cafe Clerkenwell Road London, star recitals
15 Fabio Luisi
Made Opernhaus Zürich re-open for the last two weeks of July
16 Igor Levit
Streamed Beethoven sonatas from home
17 Schubertiada de Vilabertran,in Spain
Managed to present Matthias Goerne, Juliane Banse, Florian Boesch, Andrè Schuen, Wolfram Rieger and Cuarteto Casals
18 Finnish Radio
Among the first to give concerts with live audience
19 Deutsche Oper Berlin
Playing Das Rheingold on the roof
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