Netrebko packs out La Scala
OperaLast night’s recital of songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky was a total sell-out at La Scala (and you can read both meanings into that phrase).
Anna Netrebko was partnered at the piano by Elena Bashkirova, Barenboim’s wife.
She will also open La Scala’s next season on December 7 as Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo.
Her ties with the crucible of Italian opera are tightening, despite universal acknowledgement of her past support for Vladimir Putin, who is now an indicted war criminal.
The management of La Scala needs to check its moral compass.
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