Turin, 14 July (LaPresse) – “Giuli has done nothing in these seven months; if I’d been the minister, I would at the very least have gone to Venice or summoned the relevant trade union representatives to Rome to discuss the matter. Instead, this has dragged on for seven months without the minister taking responsibility.” This is what Beatrice Venezi said on Hoara Borselli’s ‘Sette Vite’ podcast when discussing her dismissal from the Teatro La Fenice. “How did I find out? By reading an ANSA news report,” she admitted. “There’s no point beating about the bush: if the problem had been my statement to ‘La Nacion’, the superintendent would have called me and told me to issue a correction, or to resign.” According to Venezi, “the superintendent (Nicola Colabianchi, never named in the interview, ed.) failed to do the job he was supposed to do,” she added. “He must, in any case, sit down at the table with the orchestra members, the choir and all the staff. That is what a superintendent does when he wants to collaborate, and this was not done. From the very start, the whole affair took on a purely political dimension.” If he could go back, “I wouldn’t return to Atreju, because I believed in the possibility of cultural change that hasn’t happened, isn’t happening and certainly won’t happen within this cycle,” he concluded. “I believed in the possibility of change that never materialised; they put the spotlight on an artist, as they did with me, and then leave them high and dry.”
Teatro Fenice, Venice: “Giuli hasn’t done anything in seven months; I wouldn’t go back to Atreju”
Turin, 14 July (LaPresse) – “Giuli has done nothing in these seven months; if I’d been the minister, I would at the very least have gone to Venice or summoned the relevant trade union representatives to Rome to discuss the matter. Instead, this has dragged on for seven months without the minister taking responsibility.” This is what Beatrice Venezi said on Hoara Borselli’s ‘Sette Vite’ podcast when discussing her dismissal from the Teatro La Fenice. “How did I find out? By reading an ANSA news report,” she admitted. “There’s no point beating about the bush: if the problem had been my statement to ‘La Nacion’, the superintendent would have called me and told me to issue a correction, or to resign.” According to Venezi, “the superintendent (Nicola Colabianchi, never named in the interview, ed.) failed to do the job he was supposed to do,” she added. “He must, in any case, sit down at the table with the orchestra members, the choir and all the staff. That is what a superintendent does when he wants to collaborate, and this was not done. From the very start, the whole affair took on a purely political dimension.” If he could go back, “I wouldn’t return to Atreju, because I believed in the possibility of cultural change that hasn’t happened, isn’t happening and certainly won’t happen within this cycle,” he concluded. “I believed in the possibility of change that never materialised; they put the spotlight on an artist, as they did with me, and then leave them high and dry.”
