How to deal with booing

Not everyone is a Franz Welser-Möst fan.

The conductor reveals that one Vienna operagoer, who idolises Christian Thielemann, boos Welser-Möst every time he conducts Wagner. "I find that vaguely touching," he says. "I always crack a smile in his direction".

Even so, he doesn't want the boos to stop. "Opera is like a sport," he says. "[Booing] is part of its lifeblood".

Comments

[Alexander]

if so he should say it to those at Scala who don't want booing there any more I guess ;) ... skill-sharing so-to speak

[Sheila]

What they want and what they will get are two different things.

[PushedUpMezzo]

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