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The Sydney Festival will use a German orchestra in his show next year centerpiece, because it is cheaper than using Australian musicians.
Artistic Director Lieven Bertels Festival, said he was a much lower cost to pay for flights, accommodation and German conductor wages Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin than using the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra based in Sydney to perform Dido Aeneas.
We tried to do it with a local orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg, but it turned out to be more expensive with them a German orchestra, he said.
What's the position of the orchestra competition is poor.
Brandenburg CEO Bruce Applebaum said the orchestra would have significant costs incurred wheel 17 musicians from around Australia and paying them to rehearse and perform in Sydney for two weeks.
We have a different business model than any other orchestra in Australia, he said that we only have 10 musicians on salary we increase what we do with occasional musicians.
Bertels said that the production was one of the largest ever staged at an Australian festival, with a crew of 76 artists, technicians and crew members from Sydney and baroque instruments and a tank giant water.
Bertels declined to reveal the cost of the show, which will be staged at the Lyric Theater in Sydney Star Casino January 16 to 21, but he said that this is not the most expensive production that we bring to the Sydney Festival , from afar.
It was more expensive to stage acts of popular music festival, he said one of the biggest projects ever All Tomorrow's Parties festival was on Cockatoo Island, surprisingly.
He said European organizations arts were heavily subsidized by their governments, which allowed for them to perform at the Sydney Festival.
These companies are well oiled by European subsidies, he said.
Oh, my God, are they ever, Applebaum said German companies receive something like up to 75 percent of their costs by Government The German model is that we all love.
Bertels said Chinese arts organizations such as the North Kunqu Opera Theater, who performed at the Sydney Festival this year have also been supported by their government.
However, the Brandenburg receives only 16 percent of its revenue from government.
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