Anna Anna Bo Banna Cancels Again!
Anna Netrebko, still suffering from laryngitis, has cancelled her appearance tonight at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. She had been scheduled to join countertenor Andreas Scholl and the Venice Baroque Orchestra for Pergolesi's Stabat Mater — the same program and personnel as the Salzburg Festival concerts from which she withdrew last week.
At some point yesterday, Tuscan Sun Festival organizers quietly replaced the announced program on the event's website with a new program — one featuring the VBO, Scholl and superstar mezzo Cecilia Bartoli. (Even for the Tuscan Sun Festival, whose founder and general director is Barrett Wissman, the powerful chairman of the IMG Artists management agency, securing Bartoli as a last-minute replacement must be considered a coup.)
Tonight's program no longer includes the Pergolesi, presumably because there is little time for Bartoli and Scholl to rehearse the work's numerous duet movements. Instead, the VBO will play three of Vivaldi's lesser-known works for strings, Scholl will perform a virtuoso Vivaldi secular cantata and two Handel opera arias, and Bartoli will sing five arias from Handel's allegorical oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno ("The Triumph of Time and Enlightenment"), in which she has sung the role of Piacere (Pleasure) on stage several times in recent years.
There was no announcement of Netrebko's absence and Bartoli's substitution on the Tuscan Sun Festival's website, though the Italian news agency ANSA did report the news yesterday afternoon. As of this writing, Netrebko evidently still intends to proceed as planned with her stadium tour of Germany beginning this Saturday, August 18. The website of the tour promoter, DEAG, currently lists her as appearing with three different tenors for the four concerts; her announced partner for the tour (and frequent onstage collaborator), Rolando Villazón, withdrew last week due to illness. -->
At some point yesterday, Tuscan Sun Festival organizers quietly replaced the announced program on the event's website with a new program — one featuring the VBO, Scholl and superstar mezzo Cecilia Bartoli. (Even for the Tuscan Sun Festival, whose founder and general director is Barrett Wissman, the powerful chairman of the IMG Artists management agency, securing Bartoli as a last-minute replacement must be considered a coup.)
Tonight's program no longer includes the Pergolesi, presumably because there is little time for Bartoli and Scholl to rehearse the work's numerous duet movements. Instead, the VBO will play three of Vivaldi's lesser-known works for strings, Scholl will perform a virtuoso Vivaldi secular cantata and two Handel opera arias, and Bartoli will sing five arias from Handel's allegorical oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno ("The Triumph of Time and Enlightenment"), in which she has sung the role of Piacere (Pleasure) on stage several times in recent years.
There was no announcement of Netrebko's absence and Bartoli's substitution on the Tuscan Sun Festival's website, though the Italian news agency ANSA did report the news yesterday afternoon. As of this writing, Netrebko evidently still intends to proceed as planned with her stadium tour of Germany beginning this Saturday, August 18. The website of the tour promoter, DEAG, currently lists her as appearing with three different tenors for the four concerts; her announced partner for the tour (and frequent onstage collaborator), Rolando Villazón, withdrew last week due to illness. -->
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14/08/2007
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Endrik Wottrich on doping in the world of opera
The singers Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Neil Shicoff and Elina Garanca have all cancelled their appearances at the Salzburg Festival. Renowned tenor Endrik Wottrich, who fell ill at the Bayreuth Festival and was replaced by somebody else, lashes out at the world of opera in an interview with Axel Brüggemann: "One is expected to perform beyond the humanly possible... It's not normal to regard the voice no longer as a sensitive human organ, but as a machine. We are forced to choose between performing and then being torn to pieces for hitting the wrong note or calling in sick only to come under attack because we're taking it easy on ourselves... Doping has long been commonplace in the music world. Soloists take beta blockers to soothe their nerves, some tenors take cortisone to give their voices a higher pitch, and alcohol is everywhere. Fear has become such a major factor that almost any means seems justified in order to live up to expectations. For most singers, this is the beginning of the end."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany)
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