** FILE ** Head of the Social Democrats (SPOE) and Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, right, welcomes tenor Neil Shicoff on Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at the traditional summer party of the SPOE in Vienna. Gusenbauer's interest in who will become new head of the Vienna State Opera _ and his apparent preference for Shicoff_ has made him a target for criticism that he is spending too much time on affairs of the stage, instead of the state. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)