Anna Netrebko faces Hamburg protests and empty seats

Anna Netrebko faces Hamburg protests and empty seats

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norman lebrecht

September 09, 2022

A small demonstration – around 50 people – protested peacefully outside Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie against Wednesday’s recital by the Russian soprano and her husband Yusif Eyvazov.

More worrying were swatches of empty seats, signifying that a portion of the soprano’s fanbase is unhappy with her equivocations over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A quarter of the seats were unsold, according to one internal estimate.

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