{"id":15883,"date":"2025-01-06T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=15883"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:41:52","slug":"french-opera-singer-reacts-booed-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/06\/french-opera-singer-reacts-booed-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"French Opera Singer Reacts To Being Booed in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux. (Photo: Wolf-Dieter Grabner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux took to social media following her booing during a performance at Vienna\u2019s Volksoper.<\/p>\n

Beat on the ground:<\/strong> On New Year\u2019s Eve, the French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux<\/a> was booed while performing the role of Orlofsky in the Vienna Volksoper\u2019s Die Fledermaus. Ledoux took to social media<\/a> to reflect candidly following the occurrence. She noted that the Volksoper\u2019s production featured a rewrite of Orlofsky as a nihilistic, \u201cdeeply depressed and tragically closeted\u201d gay character. Ledoux commented on the involvement of Viennese audiences in their city\u2019s opera scene, engaging in online forums and often sending letters and emails to performers.<\/p>\n

The trends:<\/strong> For many opera singers, being booed is a rite of passage. Yet, that doesn\u2019t lessen its sting. In 1998, the soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming was booed at La Scala during a performance of Lucrezia Borgia. Fleming described the experience in her autobiography<\/a> as the worst night of her operatic life, which led to a nearly career-ending crisis of confidence.<\/p>\n

Katia Ledoux, who identifies as big, Black, polyam, queer and feminist on social media, pondered in her post not only whether she had done anything wrong during her performance of Orlofsky, but whether or not to her Viennese audiences, she herself was wrong. We here at Ludwig Van are cheering her on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux took to social media following her booing during a performance at Vienna\u2019s Volksoper.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":15884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3,80],"tags":[189],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Katia-Ledoux-photo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15887,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions\/15887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}