A recent concert in Stuttgart was cancelled after the local authorities refused to allow it to go ahead.
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In May, Netrebko sang to a full house at La Scala in Milan, and she has slowly reappeared on schedules across Europe. But that is not the same thing as construing a duty for artists to pontificate on morals or to have those morals approved by pitchfork mobs on Twitter,” he said in written answers to questions. I also reject the notion that especially gifted people should be forgiven things lesser mortals are held accountable for. Roščić also cautioned against forcing Russian artists into condemning Russia’s government. “Ms Netrebko condemned the war in quite clear terms” in March, he said, and as such she was welcome to sing at the theatre. To go even further and to condemn Putin would be too much to ask of her.”īogdan Roščić, the director general of the Vienna State Opera, agreed. Miguel Esteban, her general manager, said: “She has already put herself and her family and friends living in Russia at risk by saying she condemns the war and by defining the limited extent of her relationship with Vladimir Putin. This is proof enough, say her supporters, that she has gone out on a limb to oppose the war. “She has a voice, but not a conscience,” wrote Vyacheslav Volodin, the chair of the Duma, describing Netrebko’s words as a “betrayal”.Ī concert in Novosibirsk was cancelled, as the theatre accused her of being more interested in ticket sales abroad than “the fate of the motherland”. The statement was enough to attract fury inside Russia. Others note she carefully avoided direct criticism of Putin in the statement, and she later expressed frustration she had been forced to speak out at all. Vladimir Putin awards Anna Netrebko the people’s artist of Russia honour during celebrations marking the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky theatre in 2008. She said she had only met Putin on a handful of occasions, and added: “I am not a member of any political party nor am I allied with any leader of Russia.” “I expressly condemn the war on Ukraine and my thoughts are with the victims of this war and their families,” Netrebko wrote at the time. The soprano’s supporters have pointed to her condemnation of the war in a statement she issued in March. The debate over Netrebko has been part of a broader discussion in arts, culture and sport over how much individual Russians should bear responsibility for the actions of their government. The Metropolitan Opera in New York pulled Netrebko from a run of Turandot in April, replacing her with a Ukrainian soprano. Considered by many to be the greatest living soprano, Netrebko has for more than a decade been able to sell out opera houses around the world as soon as her name is announced.īut since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, attention has shifted away from her singing and focused more on her perceived closeness to Vladimir Putin. The mixed reactions are symbolic of her current performing life.
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