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The performance of “The Merry Widow” from the university course Classical Operetta of Music and Art of the Vienna Private City University (MUK) at the Gumpendorfer Straße (TAG) theater is making the Viennese opera scene laugh: up now 24 cases of corona have been confirmed. like the newspaper today reports that today two line-up changes had to be made at the Vienna Opera.
“On September 6, the MUK Covid-19 working group was informed that one of the people involved in the production of an operetta had tested positive for Corona,” said MUK press spokesperson Bernhard Mayer-Rohonczy. “All subsequent submissions were immediately stopped and the required information relayed to the responsible authorities. Contact persons were informed, quarantined and tested, as far as was known. There are currently 24 cases, all of which date back to this group”. All the activities of the affected courses have been suspended since the occurrence of the cases until the regular start of conferences on September 21.
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Today, Monday afternoon, two changes had to be made at the State Opera as a result of this cluster: Evelino Pidò will conduct “Elisir d’amore” and Javier Camarena will play the role of Nemorino. Both changes were necessary as part of the follow-up of all contact persons for a member of the State Opera’s opera studio who tested positive, he said from home in the ring. This person had attended the performance at TAG on September 6 as a spectator, which was said to be attended by 61 people, and subsequently tested positive. “She has been in quarantine ever since. Even before authorities notified this person, however, this person participated in a joint trial, which has now led to more infections in the home,” said a statement from the State Opera. “The State Opera immediately isolated all direct and indirect contacts of the person concerned and subjected them to daily tests to prevent the infection from spreading to the house.”
The director of the State Opera, Bogdan Roscic, said in a statement that he was not present at the TAG presentation: “But visitors report, among other things, dance scenes in the auditorium, a mix between the stage and the public area. That really should be unthinkable. ” The reports are true, it is shocking irresponsibility. Even our colleague, who was only present as a member of the audience wearing a mask, was notified too late to isolate her immediately. Our entire focus now is to prevent it from spreading to the State Opera and to see the health of our affected colleagues restored. “
“Without theater group”
“As far as I know, no viewers were infected,” but he said Ferdinand Urbach, Managing Director of TAG. That is why he was not talking about a theater group. There were only three people who demonstrated close contact with the actors and who viewed the play from the audience, Urbach said. “But they are part of the MUK team. There was no problem during the event. I cannot verify that the virus has jumped there,” said the managing director. That happened before in rehearsals.
Nor can he imagine that the actors have entered the auditorium. “We also especially widened the front row so that there is a distance of eight feet between the audience and the stage,” said Urbach.
“Central” handling
“We are in permanent contact with the State Opera and the Bundestheater-Holding and I have total confidence in the security and prevention measures that are implemented there,” he said. Secretary of State for Culture Andrea Mayer in a statement. No one is immune from individual cases. The key is how it is treated after these cases occur. “Federal theaters have taken all necessary steps to limit and follow up on contacts and thus, from my point of view, they have fully fulfilled their responsibility,” Mayer said with satisfaction.
