Anna Netrebko adds Budapest debut
NewsThe Russian-Austrian soprano has inserted a Budapest date into her still-reduced schedule. She will make a solo recital debut at Hungarian State Opera on September 25.
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So where is the news? I guess you really have her and some others like your ghosts in the night.
Splendid news. Let her live off concert recitals payed for by her fans, instead of regular opera performances subsidized by the state (in Europe). Let’s see how many of the online noise makers translate into ticket buyers, considering that such tickets aren’t exactly cheap. I don’t see why she insists to bury herself in opera casts for less fee than she would make otherwise off a recital, yet this es exactly what she tries to do since this debacle began, worm herself back into regular opera performances. Don’t tell me she does so for the love of the artform. Afraid she can’t sell enough recitals on the strength of her name? It seems so. Roscic and Meyer are very busy broadcasting the story of opera houses’ dire need of AN, but it looks more like AN is in need of regular opera performances.
Given Viktor Orbán’s grovelling pro-Putin, anti-Zelenskij pronouncements, this concert will certainly be a huge triumph, regardless of Donna Anna’s questionable vocal expertise.
It is extraordinary that the good Magyars seem to have developed collective amnesia about what the Russians did to Hungary in 1956.
Absolutely – and the concert is sold out (just checked on Hungarian State Opera site)
We are daily enlightened that Viktor Orbán does not represent “European values”. Well, only time will tell, where “Free Europe” can ultimately be found, if anywhere.
In Budapest, unlike in Paris, you need not constantly worry about islamistic terrorism. The rest of the Union in Europe, and one-party UK, welcome young asylum-seeking young men from richer cultures without borders, and calls this humanitarianism with grand vision and credibility.
Orbán argues that the sanctions, and the potential escalation of war, will not destroy Russia, but Europe. Foolish man, they say.
But when Brussels tells me something, I usually assume the opposite is true.
Apart from the obvious anti-Islam prejudice, Soavemusica’s fundamentally anti-European beliefs are a perfect example of why Hungary is rapidly becoming a pariah state. ‘Free Europe’ is embodied in fundamental democratic institutions such as an independent judiciary, fair elections, free press and respect for religious, political, sexual and cultural minorities.
All these things have become manifestly absent in Orbán’s Hungary.
If this is what Soavemusica considers desirable, I suggest he or she leave central Europe and move to Murmansk.
Interestingly Soavemusica makes no comment about 1956.
Imre Nagy would be turning in his grave in shame.
The BBC, Biased Broadcasting Company, and other liberal media, do their their very best with Mr. Sutherland joins the BBC, Biased Broadcasting Company, to uphold the desired, selective narrative.
In 1956 the people of Hungary revolted against communist regime, today they revolt against the Union. They say it`s just Orbán, but time will tell.
In Budapest, Pride-marches do take place, but may not be extended to schools, while in London, Christian pastors are arrested by the Rainbow-flagging police. Yes, they actually are:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9521123/Moment-police-arrest-elderly-preacher-71-street-quoting-homophobic-statements-Bible.html
Pride-flags are a current thing with the flag of Ukraine for social media warriors, but do you see Ukraine joining in the celebrations, or the media reporting it?
While Putin has banned Pride-marches, he has also banned Christian evangelists (excluding the Orthodox Church, his servant.) No news in the West…
In conclusion: God bless the dissenting Hungary.
Please do not presume any affiliation I may or may not have with the BBC.
Just for the record, there is zero connection. Such a comment is as idiotic as the rest of your arguments are utterly specious.
The attempted but failed revolution in 1956 was against the brutal RUSSIAN domination of Hungary. Basta.
Read your history before making any more inane comments.
Apart from that, Hungary voluntarily applied to join the EU in 2004 with 84% of the voting population in support. Since then Hungary has enjoyed enormous financial benefits from Brussels.
Talk about ‘biting the hand that feeds you’.
It is almost as despicable as Orbán demonizing George Soros – who just happened to pay for his education.
It would appear that Hungarians have conveniently very short memories.
Another fascist apologist. You guys never seem to die off.
No doubt she has been formally invited, and not invited herself as this post suggests. Good for her and Budapest. Too much Netrebko-bashing on here. Glad she doesn’t read of the most horrible anonymous posts on here posted by those who can’t even sing in the bath!
Is that dress in the photo drenched in the blood of the Ukrainian AND Russians her hero Putin has murdered? This all too plump has been is still trying to pretend she is an innocent victim when not only is she long complicit in the activities of the present Russian regime, she has profited from them. NO respectable house should employ her; there are better voices among the rising youngsters, and for sure better people. Send her back to Russia. Perhaps she can teach?
‘Is that dress in the photo drenched in the blood of the Ukrainian AND Russians her hero Putin has murdered?’
Nope, that is ‘normal’ design; it isn’t even stage ‘blood’, it is just as the ‘genius’ costume designer has envisioned it, in two colors. The opera business is overflowing with such geniuses. I wonder where they find them? First form or do they scour kindergartens as well?
This is the La Scala’s latest Tosca production, forgot the stage director’s name, as I should. Tasteless costumes, a turntable that never stands still, the by now obligatory tired ‘racy’ bits directors feel they have to introduce to create ‘controversy’ , and on the opening night that was streamed, AN’s off pitch ‘singing’ and a crack or two, Meli’s constricted singing, Salsi’s just singing, and Chailly’s boring conducting plus the reintroduction in the score of small cuts Puccini himself had removed, all packaged as ‘critical edition’ for reasons that escaped me. There wasn’t anything remotely critical in the performance, and even less in the dutiful reviews afterward.
She is awful at recitals
The recent reviews of Netrebko recitals are favourable. They did not evaluate her political views in support of Putin, but the performance.
It just goes to show that if you can hang on long enough, with enough friends in high places, your critics will talk themselves out and a general boredom amongst opera goers will set in. The result will be Ms Netrebko gets back on stage as if she’s been there all the time.
Did you forget to mention that Anna Netrebko,s three performances in Boheme at the Vienna State Opera, September 5, 11 and 18, sold out within hours, just like her concert at Hungarian State Opera on September 25. The new shows were announced the same day Medici.tv broadcast Turandot starring Anna Netrebko, recorded at the Verona Arena. It was a great day for opponents of unfair political blacklists.
See my reply to shosh. As to recital concerts, only fans buy tickets to those, which is the reason why only one concert is given as a rule, seldom two concerts in the same city. Not enough buyers. Budapest is the capital city, with a third of the population of that country living in the metropolitan area, over three millions. How many concerts? (rhetoric question)
If all the musicians, who someone disagreed with politically, were not hired, would there be any musicians left to perform?
What about a report/article about the SOLD OUT only a day after it was announced?
May it be a NETO (clean) report without poison drops?
Thank you for confirming my opinion expressed in another comment a few days ago. I was speculating how long until Roscic comes out with the ridiculous ‘argument’ ‘See? She sells, we need her’, which is the reason why he gave her that particular performance – that is, to produce an alibi for the aforementioned line he is going to spring on the media in due course. I see you rushed out to tout it online before him. Sheeeesh, dear shosh, let me tell you the secret of Polichinelle. _The opening of the season always sells_ , never mind what. It would sell even if they’d put the zoo’s latest addition on stage instead of singers. Most of is it sold under the counter weeks and months in advance to the people who attend this as a function, to see (others) and be seen, to celebrity (or rather notoriety) addicts, and to rich selfie poster addicts, which means that most of it was sold for the cancelled La Juive performance, not that it matters to that crowd, La Juive or La Bohème, all the same to them. The collective appreciation for opera of that crowd is less than that of a monkey on a barrel-organ. The small percentage of leftover tickets are sold publicly to the second and third ranks of celeb addicts, what you proudly call ‘sold out’ in caps no less. The Vienna State Opera (or any other opera house in a capital city) doesn’t need AN to sell the opening of the season, AN needs the opening of the season to sell herself, and this precisely the reason Roscic gave it to her.
‘that particular performance’
Correction, that should read ‘run’, though the first performance of the run is indeed the most important one. Roscic took care to give exactly one performance of the run to another singer so he could stave off any accusation of _overt_ favoritism if need be. It fools just those who are only too eager to be fooled.
If she hasn’t had her debut in Turkey, Iran, and a bunch of sub saharan African countries, now is the perfect time. Not forgetting Pyongyang.
Of course, Budapest. Putin-friendly territory.