Anna Netrebko keeps Paris waiting
OperaFlying in from Buenos Aires, the Russian soprano has pulled out of the first night of Verdi’s Forza del destino next Monday. Unwell, says the Opéra de Paris.
She will be replaced by Anna Pirozzi, making her house debut.
Netrebko is down to sing three further performances in Jean-Claude Auvray’s revived production.
Jader Bignamini conducts.
Lucky switch for ticket holders. Anna Pirozzi is a much better singer.
They are lucky to have the right Anna (admittedly, I haven’t heard her in a couple of years but what I have heard was spectacular).
Why is Anna Netrebko disdained when we revered a musician like Richter who was a child of the Stalinist era when that murderous man killed hundreds of thousands of his own people? And we knew it.
Seems to me we are at peak hypocrisy.
Sue Sonata :
but Swiatoslaw Richter was not so friendly with Stalin -perhaps it does make a diffrence.. filharmonika
New Yorker Dec 14 2022 issue, Alex Ross article