The Met must pay Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations

The Met must pay Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations

Opera

norman lebrecht

March 18, 2023

The NY Times has been leaked an arbitrator’s decision to settle Anna Netrebko’s claim that the Metropolitan Opera unfairly cancelled her contracts after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The arbitrator, Howard Edelman, ruled that ‘there is no doubt she was a Putin supporter, as she had a right to be.’

However, the Met still owes her $200 grand for 13 cancelled performances.

The amount is less than half what Netrebko had been claiming.

Read here.

UPDATE: Her other shoe drops

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