The Erzgebirge Music Festival 2022 came to an end on Sunday in Schwarzenberg: a spirit of optimism in front of full pews

It’s a topic that you’re currently encountering everywhere you go in the cultural scene: concerts that are canceled because advance sales are faltering, sparsely occupied rows of viewers even at premium music theater premieres such as Annaberg’s “Falstaff” recently, of which only two-thirds was full or the Chemnitz “Merry Widow”, where almost every third place remained empty. Whether it’s the Coro…