Netrebko cancels La Scala ‘not for health reasons’
NewsThe Russian diva tells La Reppublica she is feeling fine but will not be singing Adriana Lecouvreur with her husband Yusif Eyvazov from March 9.
The paper says she ‘denies that her absence is due to health reasons.’
Netrebko had previously issued a statement saying she was ‘opposed to this war.’
La Scala was the first opera house last week to suspend Valery Gergiev for his support of President Putin’s Ukraine war.
Not for health reasons, but because La Scala sacked Gergiev, as you can see from her Instagram.
Could this be a protest against the firing of Gergiev?
AN doesn’t protest against anything if she loses money by doing so. She loses performance fees by cancelling. No, this isn’t as much in solidarity with Gergiev as it is preservation of her own skin. If she shows up for performance she runs the danger of being seriously booed. She was booed at her last performances at La Scala too, though not much. She is going to lie low for now and hope this blows over soon, after which she will reemerge like nothing happened. She is scheduled to sing in Munich in Vienna too (opera houses who have also ditched Gergiev), but those performances are in a few months from now. She hasn’t cancelled them, she has cancelled just La Scala performances which are imminent. She might cancel the concert in Baden-Baden too.
Netrebko, like her hero Putin, is so unbearably entitled and so delusional and divorced from both reality and her own reality that she throws another little fit, this time cancelling before getting sacked. In the meantime and as I type, she remains in the roster at the Metropolitan (here’s looking at you, Peter Gelb), the Staatsoper Berlin (here’s looking at you, Zubin Mehta), the Bayerische Staatsoper, Zürich, and other houses. If they are not to be taken as mere empty, public relations rhetoric, the leadership of these houses need to show and use their teeth to back up their proclamations of solidarity with Ukraine.
Agree 100%.
What does Zubin Mehta have to do with the Berlin Staatsoper
Let him in peace and just let him retire as he is so boring anyway
Good riddance. I think we’ve all had enough of these narcissists who suck up to dictators.
Good, she’s been past it for so long I’m amazed anyone still bothers to book her. Her husband is a ghastly singer as well.
He may not like everything about what he does on stage, but he is rock solid. No general director is ever worried that he can’t deliver the goods.
The stages which he has been allowed to perform on (solely due to his relationship with AN, I might add) require a singer that can do more than simply ‘deliver the goods’. Glad to see the back of both of them. I hope it’s permanent.
He can’t deliver the goods. Heck, he can’t deliver even the mediocres. We are talking opera, that goes without saying. He can deliver muzzakh all right.
She has come down with an acute case of Putinitis.
“Not for health reasons”? Guess she doesn’t feel up to the rotten veggies and eggs the audience would through any public — or private — appearance. NOW she does not approve of the massacre in Ukraine, but she sure liked that KGB killer before the world made it clear that he was a tyrant and a murderer. If she ever sings again outside Russia and its sycophants, it will be a pity. Of course her voice is definitely not what it was so no real loss.
Her political view could be even forgiven, in the end she is a Russian citizen. But as an artist, being vulgar is worse than holding bad political view. Her “wish to be his lover” comment on Putin was so stupidly shallow and vulgar. It made me sick.
Yes, from the woman who thought she could sing so many Donizetti heroines. OOPS!
It brings up the question of how much Putin helped her career.
The Met HAS to come out on its plan for her future at the Met.
Brava Anna Netrebko. I’ve loved your performances. Now I have a reason to appreciate you S a human being.
I think you have expressed a rock-solid reason for not becoming a doctor, veterinarian or otherwise. Of course, in all honesty, we do need more horse doctors, so. . . .
The era of these kinds of stars is over. They are remnants of the old Soviet zombie state. Add to them the ballet crowd of Bolshoi and Mariinsky, especially Sakharova, a Putinist and committed racist as well. Ukraine has deservedly disowned her. Like Netrebko, Sakharova is a top tier narcissist. Let’s move on. There are better people and better artists out there.
Valery Gergiev is the biggest musical phony who ever had the unabashed invasion-mentality to step before an orchestra. Anyone who plans a career in conducting must first ask him/herself: Do I have the ear for this job. In his case, the answer is a resounding no. All the queer tics, and the weird interpretations and voicing, and, no offense to gorillas, but this gorilla-like springing about and hovering over the orchestra is all to compensate for one thing. He can’t hear—not in the way a conductor should hear. Gergiev is an amateur. He should be kicked off the world podium. Long live artistic honesty!!!!
And just when Putin was attacking Ukraine she was singing with her husband in Barviha Luxury Village in a show sponsored by Chopard. You can see the concert on YouTube. Then she claims she’s against the war without disapproving of her friend Putin.
I have nothing to say except what is being done to Ukraine is now a crime against humanity… All situations are complex, however in the end I believe artists have to stand up to injustice… If you sleep with the devil you will be complicit…