Covid infections and a last-minute change of conductor required a total recasting of Ariadne auf Naxos at Berlin’s Staatsoper unter den Linden.
The show could only go ahead because there were no cases in the orchestra.
Young conductor Thomas Guggeis saved the production.
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There’s a chorus in Ariadne?!
I could have sworn that when I wrote the above comment I read “no cases in the chorus and orchestra”.
Editors move in mysterious ways.
“The show could only go ahead because there were no cases in the orchestra.”
This is the unual nonsens of NL. There have of course been cases in the orchestra, but they have been substituted.
there was also no “last-minute change of conductor”, Guggeis was announced as replacement about two weeks ago and had a full rehearsal period.
Guggeis is highly overrated. The Staatskapelle dragged him through his debut Salome and he has improved only slightly since, with too much exposure too early…
Correct.
He was also conducting this production in September 2020 when I saw it in Berlin…