Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov said: telegram channelHe said that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the BAROCCO performance in Hamburg and chatted with the artists backstage after the performance.
“Olaf Scholz unexpectedly visited our performance of “BAROCCO” at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg),” the director wrote.
Serebrennikov shared that the chancellor drank wine and went backstage after the show and expressed his satisfaction to the artists.
The director also said that a line of the song was sung in Hungarian during the improvisational part of the performance, joking about the “relationship” between Scholz and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“Everyone laughed and the chancellor didn’t seem to be offended,” Serebrennikov said.
The cultural figure also shared that on the evening of December 15, he received a call from the Federal Criminal Police Office saying that Scholz wanted to attend the demonstration with his wife Britta Ernst upon his arrival from Brussels.
The director said two limousines arrived before the show started. Scholz and his wife were sitting in the middle of the stalls (seventh row) among the astonished guests.
“According to him (Scholz – socialbites.ca), his biggest concern in Brussels was that Viktor Orban’s speech was so long that he missed the performance in Talia,” Serebrennikov said.
Before reportedSerebrennikov plans to shoot a series based on “The Phantom of the Opera” in English.
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