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Moritz Baumsteiger
Right at the beginning, one sentence made you sit up and take notice. As Teodor Currentzis, Greek-Russian conductor under the pressure of political justification, after a long silence, finally sat down in front of the cameras of the Austrian broadcaster Servus TV for an interview, as expected, he found it “wonderful to be here, every summer”. The explanation that followed as to why he valued the festival city of Salzburg so much then built up more of a fall: “It’s an important place where you can communicate your point of view and your artistic ideas.”