Beatrice Venezi «takes note of the declaration of the superintendent Nicola Colabianchi and of the decision of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice» to cancel any future collaboration with her, but it is a position «which will in any case need to be clarified in its reasons and to which an appropriate response will need to be given».
The conductor's long-awaited reaction came in a statement in which she stated that "she learned yesterday from ANSA of the Teatro La Fenice Foundation's decision" and that she "only subsequently received a formal letter terminating her appointment." She emphasized that "she refrains from commenting on the formality of her appointment." The statements to the Argentine newspaper La Nación on April 23, according to which Teatro La Fenice superintendent Nicola Colabianchi had decided to permanently sever his relationship with the Maestro, "should have been read in the context of the interview and not distorted and exploited," she emphasized.
"I don't come from a family of musicians. And this is an orchestra where positions are practically passed down from father to son," Venezi told La Nación. These statements, according to the superintendent, "are not shared in their merits or in the opinions expressed, and are incompatible with the principles of the Foundation and with the protection and respect due to orchestra members."
After months of protests and protests, Venezi also responds to the workers who have never given up and are now rejoicing: "I have never been disrespectful, and I will never be disrespectful to the workers of any theater, unlike what I have received from the workers of La Fenice over the last eight months, who have constantly and systematically defamed, slandered, insulted, and bullied me ." "In Italy, being young is a handicap, and being a woman is an aggravating factor. My success is the success of a self-made provincial girl. And the Establishment doesn't like that," insists Maestra Venezi.
Giorgia Meloni hasn't given the green light for the decision. This was clarified the day after the celebrations at the Gran Teatro La Fenice, which were greeted with applause from the audience and the crew last night during the intermission of Wagner's Lohengrin, in a statement from Palazzo Chigi, which clarified that "the Prime Minister was not involved in any way in the matter" and therefore "the Corriere della Sera report is unfounded."
That "this is, in effect, an unquestionable act, even though fully supported by the Minister, over which the Government could not have had, and generally does not intend to have, any power to influence" is also clarified by Minister Alessandro Giuli, confirming the statement from Palazzo Chigi. The speed with which Meloni "distanced herself" from Venezi was attacked by Irene Manzi of the Democratic Party, according to whom "the constant emphasis that Beatrice Venezi's dismissal from the Teatro La Fenice was the superintendent's own decision has all the smack of an unsolicited excuse" from government officials. With the Venezi case, "the entire appointment policy of the Meloni government is crumbling," thunders M5S Senator Vincenza Aloisio.
The responsibility falls entirely on the director of the La Fenice Theater Foundation, Nicola Colabianchi, who made a "free and independent" choice, as Minister Giuli recalls. A decision that, after months of protests and controversy, "obviously cost me because it wasn't foreseen," Colabianchi says today, but Venezi "made statements that undermined the dignity of the institution, and this was no longer tolerable."
(Unioneonline)