Philip Hochmair jumped for the sick one in 2018 Tobias Moretti a. He only said regarding a possible successor: “Something like this only happens once in a lifetime. The question doesn’t arise, but if so, I wouldn’t have to rehearse for long.”
In any case, on Tuesday evening there was also the first opera of the festival to be seen in the city of Mozart: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. The gory play revolves around the duke’s wife, who finds locked doors in her new home and then discovers that her husband first brutally tortured and then murdered all of her predecessors. Present at the opening opera: Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg with his counterpart from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bisera Turković“Life Ball” founder Gery Keszler and minister Karoline Edtstadler.
