Monte Carlo dumps a Russian singer

Wahlberliner says:

What’s the contradiction here? The instagram post talks about him appearing in Monte Carlo later in the month, says nothing about the Verdi Requiem. For all you know, he might well be indisposed at present. Still, if gets you the clicks, journalistic accuracy be damned.

MD says:

As Karl Marx famously said, when history repeats itself, the first time it does it as tragedy, the second as farce. In the case of the revival of McCarthyism pursued by Slippedisc, the farcical level is so high that it definitely deserve accolades on par with the best MelBrooksism. In this new installment we are told the story of the sleepy boss of a Monte Carlo theater who, the day before a big performance, suddenly makes an unexpected, deeply unsettling discovery. Which discovery? Slippedisc is stingy on details, so we can only speculate. Did he suddenly discover that Abdrazakov was Russian when his passport accidentally fell on the floor? Or were his suspicions raised after a ritual toast, when the singer sent his empty glass flying to crash behind his shoulders? Or was it maybe some local news station that, having caught wind that Russia had invaded Ukraine in February 2022, broke the news in Monte Carlo on that day? Talking about bad timing for the poor theater boss. One can only imaging his anxiety level when he realized that his name would likely end up in the online forum ran by that guy who has never seen a Russian that wasn’t a Putin lover who ought to be banned by any civilized institution. That realization must have been so stressful that it’s hard to fault him for believing that any evidence substantiating those insinuations had been provided. SlippeDisc does not reveal how he arrived at the decision to sack Abdrazakov, but it is easy to imagine that when the destraught guy tried to reach Verdi to ask his opinion, learning of his death must have been the classic straw that broke the camel’s back, convincing him that it was a doomed day and he had no choice. So the theater boss sacked the Russian bass with the official excuse he was sick. An excuse that did not fool SlippeDisc, which brilliantly produced the indisputable proof to unmask the whole imbroglio: an empty post from Abdrazakov Instagram which did not contain even a single word to confirm he was actually sick nor even a single word to deny his support for Putin. Elementary, my dear Watson!

Tiger says:

Well, he is still listed for Filippo II so, unless that changes, he has hardly been “dumped”. I wouldn’t mind if he was – but currently he is not.