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Famed Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will not carry out on the Metropolitan Opera in New York Metropolis this season or subsequent after she refused to publicly distance herself from Russian President Vladimir Putin, in accordance with a press release from the Met.
“It’s a nice inventive loss for the Met and for opera,” the corporate’s normal supervisor, Peter Gelb, stated in a press release to CNN. “Anna is among the biggest singers in Met historical past, however with Putin killing harmless victims in Ukraine there was no means ahead.”
Netrebko was scheduled to carry out in Puccini’s “Turandot” this spring, in addition to Verdi’s “Don Carlo” subsequent season.
Ukranian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will change her in “Turandot” and her alternative in “Don Carlo” can be introduced at a later date, in accordance with the Met.
Netrebko had issued statements important of the struggle, however has not publicly commented on Putin.
In 2014, Netrebko made a big donation to an opera home in Donetsk, a metropolis in Ukraine managed by pro-Russian separatists, in accordance with a report by the New York Occasions. After she made the donation, she was pictured holding a Novorossiyan flag, which is utilized by separatist teams.