Cancellations that have become recurring again.
Due to the detection of several cases of Covid infection, the Munich Opera made the decision to cancel all of its performances last week.
At first, Serge Dorny, the new director general of the establishment, announced from his Twitter account to “
temporarily
interrupt
rehearsals and performances until Friday, November 12, 2021 inclusive”
.
More cautiously, the Munich Opera postpones the date to November 18.
"We have decided to take this safety measure to break the chain of contamination and ensure, as far as possible, that there is no further spread of positive Covid cases in the house,"
he said in a statement. In total, two concerts and five opera performances could not be held, including
Carmen
, the children's opera
Der Mondbär as
well as the three dates of the
Birds
. In addition to the reimbursement of tickets, the Bayerische Staatsoper is putting the performance
of Dmitry Shostakovich's
Nose
online free of charge in
Kirill Serebrennikov's new production, recorded on October 27.
Germany submerged by a fourth wave
Long considered the example to follow in terms of managing the epidemic during the first wave, Germany is currently seeing the number of positive Covid cases skyrocket.
The Robert Koch Institute for Public Health Surveillance indicates on Monday an incidence rate of 303 per 100,000 inhabitants, against 289 the day before, a figure never reached since the start of the pandemic.
By way of comparison, the incidence rate stood at 197.6 on December 22, 2020, just before the launch of the vaccination campaigns.
A record at the time, buried since November 8 (201.1).
"The fourth wave of the pandemic is unfortunately developing as we feared, because the number of vaccinated is not sufficient"
, lamented Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute for Public Health Surveillance, during a press conference.
The Minister of Health Jens Spahn speaks, him, of an epidemic of the
"unvaccinated"
.
67.5% of the population has received its two doses to date, according to the Federal Ministry of Health, reflecting a non-compulsory vaccination in Germany.
