Motto: The opera house must not be a mausoleum.
Topic: Discussion with opera director Serge Dorny about the current questions and topics of the Bavarian State Opera Munich
Reporting: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/bayerische-staatsoper-muenchen-theaterferien-igor-zelensky-serge-dorny-1.5630873
https://www.merkur.de/kultur/bayerische-staatsoper-serge-dorny-ueber-die-naechste-saison-und-die-drohende-schliessung-zr-91523233.html
Since the 2021/22 season, Serge Dorny has been the artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera and, together with general music director Vladimir Jurowski, has already been able to give this house some new impetus, above all through new productions of works from the 20th and 21st centuries. The main theme of the current season is "Songs of War and Love", as if Dorny had seen the world crises coming to a head. "Today we find ourselves in a suspended moment between an old world dying and a new world emerging," said the introduction to the 2022-23 season schedule. "War and Love" (...) seem diametrically opposed to each other, but at the same time both are characterized by complex dynamics and a high density of events. (...) The figures can be found in many works that will be staged in new productions in the 2022/23 season, such as Così fan tutte, Lohengrin, War and Peace, Aida, Dido and Aeneas / Expectation, Hamlet or Semele in a state of anticipation, each in their own way." "The opera house must not be a mausoleum" is one of Serge Dorny's dogmas. A key motivation for his work is to link music theater with themes of our time, to lure young people and those who have not yet audiences to the opera and to repeatedly leave their own house with the programme.