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Tickets were raffled on the Internet and places were allocated for 1,250 visitors. The Midsummer Night Concert will also take place differently this year.
Under the motto “love” and under the sign of the coronavirus pandemic, the Vienna Philharmonic’s summer night concert will be rescheduled in the Schönbrunn Palace Park. Tickets for 1,250 visitors were raffled on the Internet and they were admitted to their assigned seats in stages. The park was closed from 6 pm Strict security measures are applied.
“The musicians are completely isolated. The other areas are also precisely divided, who is allowed to be where in the square (…) and of course a mask is required everywhere”, emphasizes the organizer Thilo Fechner:
In recent years, around 100,000 spectators attended the concert. The organizers refer to the secure live broadcast on ORF, which takes place with a time delay starting at 8.15 pm.
The Russian conductor Valeri Gergijew participates for the fourth time in the great open-air concert, as a special highlight this time the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his debut in an imperial atmosphere.
Stage staff affected by travel warning
“We all have to help ensure that the virus does not spread so uncontrollably that these kinds of disasters happen again, as has unfortunately already happened in some countries. (…) So now we are singing to the world. The people who long for Vienna and they cannot wait to come, now we are increasing their yearning, “said Kaufmann in an interview with” Vienna today. “
The current travel advisory for Vienna primarily affects stage personnel. The members of the dismantling team come from external companies in Germany. “Suddenly they are stranded here because they have to be quarantined later. It’s a bit of an uncertain frame of mind here on the pitch, ”Fechner said.
This year includes works by Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and Giacomo Puccini, as well as Offenbach and Massenet. Despite all the circumstances, the Vienna Philharmonic wants to send a positive signal with the staging of the concert.
