the lawyers will answer – Corriere.it

Stéphane Lissner has taken note of the journalists who have asked to meet him. And on Monday he will pass the list to his lawyers: they will be the ones to answer, to tell the truth of the superintendent of the San Carlo who has kept silent so far, limiting himself to saying that he will defend himself legally. He confides that he is “shocked and psychologically tested”.

He will leave the Neapolitan theater for an ad hoc government decree that extends to foreign managers the 70 year limit for the superintendents of opera foundations.

The Frenchman will give way to Carlo Fuortes, who comes from very positive experiences in theaters and will leave the CEO of Rai to a trusted man of Prime Minister Meloni. At the San Carlo there is a “Bulgarian” climateor Russian: one is even afraid to say whether Lissner is in the office.

There local politics is divided: the president of the Region Vincent DeLuca he is not Lissner’s best friend, he has cut 2.5 million funds, accuses him of earning too much and is waging war against the general manager Emmanuela Spedaliere, who fills an unexpected role. Lissner is aligned with the state’s top fee 240 thousand euros a year. And it performs two functions, that of superintendent and that of artistic director.

But that’s exactly the point. The musical world is divided: there was or was not Naples renaissance? There are great voices that did not pass through Naples, hired due to the contacts Lissner had at La Scala and in Paris. However, the San Carlo is above all a great singing boutique. Great directors are not seen. And the presence of directors is alternating current, while in Milan he brought Chéreau, Warner, Carsen, Emma Dante…

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