Unlike many other music forums the Salzburg festival 2020 will still take place, but in reduced and modified form. The measures, which the most famous festival of the planet had to go in their centenary year, says Sergey hodnev.Some of the major summer festivals decided to give up their plans for 2020 back in April, some have taken a wait and took a decision in recent weeks. There are those who are still undecided: well-known festival of ancient music in Innsbruck definitively clarify its intentions in early June. The festivals that still, in one form or another will take place, warn about unprecedented measures of health security: the Rossini festival in Pesaro, for example, seated audience at the lodges, and the orchestra with the distance between the musicians is going to sit in the stalls.But canceled the festivals much more. Not the forums will be held in AIX-EN-Provence, Lucerne, Bayreuth, not St. Petersburg “Stars of the white nights”. Against this background, the published decision of the Salzburg kuratorium (the steering Board of the festival) still hold the festival in 2020 looks optimistic signal, even though “artistically significant and economically justified” (as expressed in the official press release) the program will be very different from the one that was announced last fall.Over the 44 days of the festival was to be held 200 events (operas, concerts, dramatic presentations) — instead, they will be only 90, the duration reduced to 30 days, and the total number of sites from 16 to six. Those productions that will be shown this summer, will be postponed to the following year — that is now the obvious way hastily remade the program not only this year but also next. Will remain the most important in a psychological sense, for the festival thing — celebrations on the occasion of its 100th anniversary (in particular devoted to the anniversary of the great exhibition), and ideologically, it is advantageous: any speaker can start from the fact that, say, in the 1920’s were hard times and is now heavy, but nothing on the right.Of course, this is encouraging, as the Deposit is at least partially return the world to normal life, and yet, until the decision of curatorium raises many questions. Not published no details: at the moment it is unclear what exactly of the festival events will donate, and that will take, and whether, for example, thus reducing overall balance of Opera, concert and drama performances. Whether by August lifted all restrictions on movement, and whether to get to Salzburg all the artists and all the spectators from distant lands — the same question, and it is unclear how the festival into PereVesti his program. ��eaten a mechanism for the return of tickets: not yet said whether to keep ticket holders for performances that will be held in 2020, the opportunity to visit them in 2021-m. Generally, cash indicators and related economic policy of the festival that is particularly worrying. Events 2020 year the festival sold about 180 thousand tickets, earning €24.5 million Rough estimate suggests that they will have to return at least half of this amount. If you add to it the refund for the other tickets for the Salzburg festival — Pfingstfestspiele (which was to be held in late may — early June, but cancelled completely), the costs seem sensitive enough to recall that in 2018 the whole festival budget amounted to €61,8 million Years of the Salzburg festival was proud that not only gets money from the state and private Trustees, but perfectly on its own: in a good year, cash collections were up to half of the total budget. In 2020 there is no point in even dream of. Corporate and private sponsors in the current environment is also not particularly rich. Is to rely on state subsidies, but it could weaken the artistic autonomy of the festival and to put it in dependence on Metropolitan and regional politicians, which is 100 years history of the festival is not just out him sideways.
