Valentina Lisitsa plays in Canada tonight – at the Russian embassy

Valentina Lisitsa plays in Canada tonight – at the Russian embassy

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norman lebrecht

June 02, 2015

The repercussions of her banning by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are taking ever stranger turns.

The US-based pianist, an outspoken opponent of the Ukrainian government, will perform in Ottawa tonight in a recital at the Russian Embassy to mark the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth. The embasy describes the event as ‘strictly non-political’.

Be that as it may, it aligns Lisitsa all the more inextricably with the Putin political machine.

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