Yusif Eyvazov is singing now at the Bolshoi

Yusif Eyvazov is singing now at the Bolshoi

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norman lebrecht

September 16, 2022

We are informed that the Azerbaijani tenor is singing Herman this week in the Bolshoi’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades.

This complicates matters for Eyvazov and his wife Anna Netrebko.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Eyvazov has sung only in western Europe, where Netrebko found herself sanctioned because of past support for President Putin and his aggression in Crimea.

Now Eyvazov has returned to sing in Putin’s prime opera house, allying himself with perpetrators of war crimes.

How this news will be received by, for instance, the Mayor of Milan, chair of the La Scala board, remains to be seen.

 

 

Comments

  • Paolo says:

    Adbrazakov sings regurarly in Russia and Europe and many others do the same wothout any problem.

  • Herr Doktor says:

    All anyone needs to do is pull their fingers out of their ears when Yusif Eyvazov is singing, and they will reach the appropriate conclusion.

    While I had read unflattering comments about Eyvazov’s singing before actually hearing him live for myself, nothing prepared me for his atrocious performance in Turandot at the Met. The bottom line: He embarrassed himself. I can only imagine what Christine Goerke had to be thinking to herself.

  • JS says:

    This news is dedicated to those who think that Anna N. took a terrible risk with her “condemnation of the war.” There is no doubt that the text of this statement was approved by Kremlin – condemn the war but take no position. The Russian diva is to have an international career as before, this is more profitable for everyone. She continues to collaborate with Maxim Berin, sees her russian friends (Netrebko – Eyvazov just spent a vacation with Natalia Malinova of VTB Bank and the couple Yana Batyrshina – Timur Weinstein of NTV Broadcasting, Putin’s elite), Anna’s sister went to Krasnodar with no problems – and they don’t try to hide it at all, they post it all on their Instagrams.
    Her “condemnation of war” was just a window dressing for the gullible ones and the excuse for western opera theaters to employ her.

  • Nik says:

    The word “singing” is doing some heavy lifting here.

  • MacroV says:

    Well, his previous behavior toward Armenian colleagues should already have been disqualifying.

    • Tamino says:

      Unfortunately almost nobody in this hypocritical world cares about Armenia much. It‘s all about geopolitics, what‘s necessary to rule the world. Nobody in the relevant elites gives a fuck about human rights, democracy, rule of law and such. That‘s just sand in the eyes of the commoners.

  • Great Inquisitor says:

    Most of all I love the fact that the problem of today’s world situation lays totally on musicians. Just imagine – if Netrebko’s and Gergiev’s careers are completely ruined – then the peaceful world shall come! Dear Norman, we are just few steps away, let us not stop. We must dig deeper in their biographies to find some new secrets. Remember – Ukrainians let their hopes on you in particular!

  • Nonman says:

    Yeah Norman let’s cancel everyone who sings at Bolshoi or has ever sang at the Bolshoi after 2014 (when the war between Ukraine and Putin started).
    *GRRRR russians GRRR gergiev GRRR Commies GRRRR cancel russians GRRRR russia russia Russiaahsgsgudur GRRRRR*

  • Tom Phillips says:

    Well of course given his genocidal anti-Armenian racism and long held pro-Putin stance he will be quite welcome at a subhuman fascistic pit such as the Bolshoi (an equally accurate description as Russia as a whole).

  • Claudio says:

    Such a comic pair, these two…
    I do not think that we needed to take them seriously even if 24th February haven’t happened.

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