Conductor berates audience as 'uneducated'

  • Breaking
  • 23/12/2014

Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has interrupted a concert to tick off the audience for taking photographs, slamming flash-happy fans at Milan's prestigious opera house as "badly educated".

Barenboim, during a performance of Schubert at La Scala, warned the audience - and one woman in particular - that he had asked several times for people not to take photographs and was beginning to lose his temper.

"Madam, I am trying to give you my best, but you have no respect for it!" he said.

"Those who take photographs during concerts are badly educated.

"I have asked at every concert. The first time nicely, but now it's serious," he said, before returning to the stage to begin the sonata again, according to media reports on Tuesday.

AFP

source: newshub archive