Where’s Netrebko? Here she is…
mainWe reported exclusively that Anna Netrebko has skipped her last Eugene Onegin in Paris to attend the inauguration of Valery Gergiev’s private concert hall on the outskirts of St Petersburg.
A Russian website, dp.ru, has a picture of Netrebko toasting her mentor at the opening.
Among other celebrities in attendance were the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the former russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin (he’s chair of the Mariinsky board) and the conductor Mariss Jansons.
Wow, great pic for this illustration of a toast at this opening indeed. We are happy to see that Netrebko has returned to black hair. Or not hahahahaaaaa. Maybe this picture dates from 2008.
Bravo for your professionnalism.
Probably you have to direct your reproaches towards Russian journalists from “Business Petersburg” who cover news events at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The the opening of the Gergiev’s hall in Repino on 31 May was timed to this Forum.
The next day Netrebko took part at the official reception at the Forum in Hermitage https://www.facebook.com/100012071320592/videos/pcb.296399290772446/296398544105854/?type=3&theater
and here http://www.classicalmusicnews.ru/reports/anna-netrebko-i-yusif-eyvazov-vyistupili-na-prieme-v-peterburge/
Sorry, but spreading a fake news knowing it’s fake is as despicable as creating it.
Lebrecht wrote “A Russian website, dp.ru, has a picture of Netrebko toasting her mentor at the opening”. Now that it’s proven that this pictures dates from May 2008 in Moscow, keeping on going with this is just absurd and dishonest.
By the way, all your links are about a concert that happened on 1st of June. Nothing about 31 of May (where even Lebrecht admits Netrebko did not perform).
Dear Norman,
This picture of a toast illustrating the russian paper dates from 2008 !
I mean it was quite easy to check with a brain still working as Netrebko has a blond hair now…
Yes – and Mariss Jansons was still alive!
http://www.5-tv.ru/news/131722/
If I paid 210 euros and she cancelled just because she found a better party to go to, I’d be pissed! No refunds! And no respect for the French from the the Russians (Putin and Netrebko).
What a silly hyperbole, to inflate your rant to the level most stereotypical nationalistic resentments.
I guess next time Jonas Kaufmann cancels, you will blame Merkel or even Hitler personally.
Yes I would if Kaufmann cancelled and showed up at a Nazi rally!
And yes I would if Merkel interfered with the French election.
+100 🙂
Some would call this photo a “fake news”. And they would be right. This is not a recent photo. The above posted Netrebko photo is from 2 May 2008, Gergiev’s birthday in Moscow. It seems to me that fake news virus is spreading quickly.