Teatro dell'Opera di Roma commissariato Sunday, April 5, 2009 THE REPUBLIC
Superintendent and Mayor Ernani rebels against the government. Fracci defends him: ignoble chase
After the decision to transfer management to Alemanno: Opera is the third largest protected
"It is also killed in the midst of a time of peace." Choose a phrase in effect, melodramatic, Francesco Ernani when he is forced to leave the post of superintendent of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma pincer operation conducted by the Minister Bondi, commissioner of the institution that has made the opera, and Mayor Alemanno has been invested with the role of commissioner for three months. But in the situation of financial chaos that has plunged the whole system of opera foundations under the ax cuts the government could hardly resist a superintendent appointed a decade ago by the Minister Giovanna Melandri (D'Alema government) and the then mayor Francesco Rutelli Capitoline . Ernani
returned yesterday to the mandate with a "ceremony" pubblica, sottolineando l´ingiustizia del provvedimento che lo licenzia («privo di fondamento giuridico») e incassando applausi e solidarietà da Carla Fracci («Non si tocca una persona così onesta: è ignobile») e dai sindacati dei dipendenti del teatro, che accusano di tradimento Alemanno, minacciano di bloccare tutti gli spettacoli venturi e annunciano un ricorso al Tar contro il commissariamento. Da Vienna Riccardo Muti, al quale Alemanno ha offerto il posto di direttore musicale all´Opera, non prende posizione ma fa i suoi auguri al teatro.
Il sindaco di Roma difende il provvedimento e ne sottolinea l´ineluttabilità: «Già l´anno scorso il disavanzo dell´Opera era di 8 milioni, il commissariamento Bondi by the Minister was not a choice but an obligation, otherwise the department would have been prosecuted by the Court of Auditors. " But there is Ernani and submit the accounts of his administration, he said virtuous from the standpoint of artistic (and this is undeniable given the quality of many proposals in recent years) and economically: a balanced budget for 7 years and over 8 Oscar's budget in 2001, despite the structural deficit that burdens all the opera companies and is now more than EUR 290 million, according to estimates by the ministry.
With the Opera di Roma now are three opera houses commissions for financial woes: the others being the San Carlo in Naples, under protection since 2007, and the Carlo Felice in Genoa. The result was a few months Arena di Verona and in recent years the Maggio Fiorentino. But not a day goes by without one of the 13 opera companies in operation (the 14th, the Petruzzelli of Bari, is expected to reopen the road by the Minister) goes up the cry of alarm to a financial sector on the edge, with the risk of closure for some theaters by the end of this year. An industry in crisis, but divided, whose trade association, the Anfols, has split with the controversial release of giants such as La Scala in Milan, Maggio Fiorentino, Santa Cecilia, and, specifically, the Opera of Rome, their bodies which says may have a preferential treatment while awaiting reform of Bondi.
"No wonder Opera Roma, al contrario di quanto accade altrove, i sindacati difendano il sovrintendente: sono stati proprio certi sovrintendenti a firmare contratti non compatibili con la situazione e che mettono in affanno i teatri» attacca polemicamente Marco Tutino, sovrintendente a Bologna e presidente dell´Anfols.