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Orchesterstreik

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Saturday evening I was at the Stuttgart Ballet to see a new adaptation of Hamlet , played here since the beginning of the month. The opportunity to meet my friends and Jason Alexis and many others. But I'm not here to talk about themselves, but of the orchestra. Because a ballet done well it goes with a real orchestra, and here things are done well ... Except that orchestras in Germany were on strike that day. In 90 operas in Germany, the musicians protested.

Why? Because we want to change the way they are paid by decoupling their wage agreements of those officials, and it does not please them. I do not know the details, but imagine the problem.

is admired here as Hamlet
Jason Reilly and Alicia Amatriain (which I do not know yet) Ophelia

What was funny was how the strike. Because a musician on strike, it does not allow himself to cancel an opera or ballet. It is seen especially at intermission: it wears a fluorescent yellow jacket with "strike" written on it (well they say here Streik but the idea is the same), it distributes leaflets to spectators and ... and it does not return to play at the end of the pause of half an hour. When people returned to the room, they announced that because of the strike, the pause was extended by half an hour. One hour in total, which is quite long for an intermission, but short enough for a strike, it must be said. Especially after the musicians came back and played all throughout and very well as usual, and thankfully because the second act was my favorite, with a first party scene that was reminiscent of West Side Story and a nice fight choreography ( between Alexis and Jason, well, actually) but that did not end very well.

short, a ballet, a strike, and a trip to the Volksfest eating chocolate fruit ... c'éait a nice evening.