Somertimes, my friend, the dummkopfs decide the cast of singer or
command the orchestra, but also some players (horn players oboes
included) play so sauer in the pit, that even the kraut (cabbage)
becomes sauer (sour). Sometimes the commander in chief (conductor) is
also the reason, why the horn players become sauer (sour = in German we
understand it as getting bored !)) in the pit.
We had a Rosenkavalier here during the Opera Festival 1984. Carlos
Kleiber conducted. At the end of act no.2 a grumbling noise began
crescendoed until we could not hear the oxen (baron Ochs von Lerchenau)
any more. What had happen ? Even it sounded like a quake, it was
hailstones, large like tennis balls. Damage in town : some 4 billion
USD. All cars were heavily dented. Mine was just 3 weeks old.
Fortunately covered by insurance as hailstones AND storm worked
together.
There is another kind of stage fright which you probably haven't
experienced in Munich, Hans. As I was playing Cosi fan tutte
recently, I noticed the hall shaking for about five seconds during
the first act finale. The second hornist said it was another
earthquake, but I knew that it wasn't tectonic, but a genuine case
of stage fright. This was a hall that had never been used for opera
before, so quite naturally the stage was inexperienced - I don't think
it was health problems - and so the stage suffered a brief bout of
nervous shaking. No doubt it calmed itself down by noticing
the dummkopfs in the cast and the sauer kraut in the pit.
Gotta go,
Cabbage
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