Tobias Moretti
In a wheelchair to the Salzburg Festival
Edith Clever and Tobias Moretti at the Salzburg Festival.
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Due to a leg injury, Tobias Moretti performed in a wheelchair at the Salzburg Festival.
Because of an injury to his leg, Tobias Moretti, 64, performed in a wheelchair at the Salzburg Festival. Pictures show the Austrian actor with a splint on his left leg. Moretti is said to have injured himself in an accident at work on his farm in Tyrol, as the daily newspaper “Kurier” reports. He is said to have broken it several times.
Tobias Moretti reads on the festival stage
Together with his colleague Edith Clever, 82, he read “Letters in Exile: Max Reinhardt – Helene Thimig” on the festival stage. It was an “impressive and moving evening of literature”, according to the Instagram account of the Salzburg Festival. And further: “In their sold-out reading, Tobias Moretti and Edith Clever gave an insight into the bitter life in exile and told of the unconditional love of two people in stormy times.”
No festivals without Moretti?
The Salzburg Festival is now hard to imagine without Moretti. For example, between 2002 and 2005 he played the good fellow/devil in “Jedermann”. Also in 2005 he premiered in the title role in Franz Grillparzer’s “König Ottokars Glück und Ende”. Moretti was Bassa Selim in “Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio” in 2013 and from 2017 to 2020 he himself played Jedermann.
In August 2022, Moretti’s wife Julia accompanied him to the Salzburg Festival after a serious accident. At that time they were supposed to be on stage together, but Julia Moretti could not perform because she had a serious quad accident a few weeks earlier. “She feels good, she is with us, she is in life, she is not paralyzed,” he confirmed to ORF and explained that she “will become her old self again”.
The two have been married since 1997 and have three children together. The eldest daughter of Tobias and Julia Moretti, Antonia, is an actor like her father. They can be seen together in “In the Camorra’s Net”.
Sources used: kurier.at, instagram.com