It was the last major opera premiere at this year’s Salzburg Festival and a week later also planned as a major television event: Anna Netrebko in Michael Sturminger’s “Tosca” production from 2018.
Now the ORF but informed by its production partners at the Salzburg Festival and UNITEL that the delayed ORF-2 live broadcast of Salzburg’s “Tosca” on Friday, August 27th at 8:15 pm will be canceled, as announced in a broadcast on Monday evening. The TV production planned for the performance days August 24th and 27th had to be canceled “for organizational and disposition reasons”.
Speculation and “dead”
In view of this dry statement, there are already first ones SpeculationAccording to which there could also be artistic reasons for the surprising omission.
Of the ORF instead shows a substitute program from Salzburg – albeit from a completely different subject: Friday at 8:15 pm the Dacapo episode “Zeugenmord” of the crime series “Die Toten von Salzburg” runs ORF 2.
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