{"id":1357410,"date":"2022-03-03T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357410"},"modified":"2022-03-03T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:52:59","slug":"russian-soprano-anna-netrebko-out-at-nycs-metropolitan-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-soprano-anna-netrebko-out-at-nycs-metropolitan-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko out at NYC&#039;s Metropolitan Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-soprano-anna-netrebko-out-at-nycs-metropolitan-opera%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/met-opera-netrebko-russian-soprano-anna-netrebko-bows-audience-at-of-la-scala-opera-house-gala-season-e1646336396742-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, costing the company one of its top singers and best box-office draws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,\u201d Met General Manager Peter Gelb said in a statement Thursday. \u201cAnna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gelb had said Sunday that the Met would not engage artists who support Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The Met made repeated efforts in recent days attempting to convince Netrebko to repudiate Putin but failed to persuade her, a person familiar with the developments said, speaking on condition of anonymity because that detail was not announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Met\u2019s decision followed the collapse of the international career of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-entertainment-business-munich-1a804383b8ae54df96a3f1d3ba1cb378\">Russian conductor Valery Gergiev<\/a>, who has been close to Putin as artistic and general director of the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-united-nations-general-assembly-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-moscow-a3092d8e476949ed7c55607a645a9154\">invasion of Ukraine<\/a> has led to a show of solidarity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-entertainment-travel-arts-and-entertainment-d3608a8531cdefb5549b8e9948545f97\">arts and culture world<\/a> with Ukrainians and a backlash against the Russian government and those with ties to it that won\u2019t reject Putin\u2019s actions. The ripple effects have also reached the international sports world.<\/p>\n<p>Netrebko, a 50-year-old from Krasnodar, received the People\u2019s Artist of Russia honor from Putin in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>She was photographed in 2014 holding a Novorussian flag after giving a 1 million ruble donation (then $18,500) to the opera hose in Donetsk, a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russia separatists.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Netrebko withdrew from all her upcoming performances. Her next listed performance was at Barcelona\u2019s Gran Teatre del Liceu on April 3, followed by three concerts with her husband, Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov, and an April 13 concert with the Berlin Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am opposed to this senseless war of aggression and I am calling on Russia to end this war right now, to save all of us. We need peace right now,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is not a time for me to make music and perform. I have therefore decided to take a step back from performing for the time being. It is an extremely difficult decision for me, but I know that my audience will understand and respect this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>There was no immediate response from Netrebko to Gelb\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Netrebko made her Met debut on Feb, 14, 2002, in Prokofiev\u2019s \u201cWar and Peace\u201d and quickly became a house favorite. She has appeared in 192 performances at the house, the last a New Year\u2019s Eve gala she starred in on Dec. 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Netrebko will be replaced by Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska in Puccini\u2019s \u201cTurandot\u201d for five performances from April 30 to May 14, including a May 7 performance broadcast to theaters worldwide. The Met said Netrebko also will be replaced as Elisabetta in Verdi\u2019s \u201cDon Carlo\u201d for five performances from Nov. 3-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Met also said it would construct its own sets and costumes for next season\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-travel-music-arts-and-entertainment-new-york-0d752fa76b54d4e3b7a415788ba67bc7\"> new production of Wagner\u2019s \u201cLohengrin\u201d<\/a> rather than share them with Moscow\u2019s Bolshoi Opera, as originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>Gergiev was fired this week as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, and the Gergiev festival, an annual event since 1996, was canceled by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was principal guest conductor from 1995 to 2008. He also was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-entertainment-new-york-europe-331a9f1bec4964ec3e07e41fe4475432\">dropped by the Vienna Philharmonic<\/a>, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and Milan\u2019s Teatro alla Scala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, costing the company one of its top singers and best box-office draws. \u201cIt is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}