At the Met, Netrebko’s other shoe drops

At the Met, Netrebko’s other shoe drops

Opera

norman lebrecht

March 19, 2023

Under the smokescreen of Anna Netrebko’s $200k arbitration award for cancelled performances, Peter Gelb the Met’s general manager said he had also fired her Azeri husband, Yusif Eyvazov.

The reason given – oddly – was some abusive remarks made by Eyvazov nine months ago about the US soprano Angel Blue, who refused to appear opposite a blacked-up Netrebko in an Italian Aida prodution at Verona.

He’s bit late waking up to that. Yusif is probably next in line for Met compensation.

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