Zurich dumps Putin singer

I hate Putin singer! Merry Christmas everyone.

Oh yess! yess! But who needs Zurich when you have Muti promoting you and legitimizing you???

There is an intriguing chain of thoughts connecting Muti, Putin, the Putin Bass, Depardieu, Macron, The Legion of Honor, Gergiev, Iran, the Nazi Party, Hamas, Domingo and the MeToo movement.

Pay attention:

According to many reports, the Putin Bass (aka Abdrazakov) was Muti’s star of choice for the gala concluding in glory the Ravenna Festival a couple of days ago. https://operawire.com/ildar-abdrazakov-will-sing-at-the-ravenna-festivals-verdi-gala/
Reports say it ended with OVATIONS!! Who’s to say the Putin Bass is banned in the West? He sings with Muti and they receive OVATIONS together!!!

Muti has the power and moral authority to legitimize the Putin Bass (aka Abrazakov), we all agree with that. Who cares if Muti made a skit condemning the Ukraine invasion some time ago? No serious person I know believed that, and it’s water under the bridge anyway. Muti makes Putin’s singer sing in the West, that’s what counts, not some bloody Chicago skit! In addition, the Italian Maestro has won the RUSSIAN ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP, conferred to him by Putin. This fantastic Putin award has always been one of Muti’s favorite awards and he wanted his fans to know about it: it was printed on the CSO program books for years (between the Queen award, and the Pope award); it was reported in this great Muti profile article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8386177/Riccardo-Muti-a-profile.html

Here is a nice pic of Muti and Putin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_with_Riccardo_Muti-1.jpg

Muti has also been nominated honorary member of the RUSSIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS, presided by the sublime artist who sculpted the statue of Putin dressing in a kimono: Zurab Tsereteli. A nice pic of of the Putin statue should be viewed here:

https://www.alamy.com/aggregator-api/download/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FR5ED6M%2Frussia-moscow-presnya-area-studio-of-zurab-tsereteli-russian-super-artist-sculpture-of-premier-vladimir-putin-in-karate-costume-R5ED6M.jpg

According to reports, in March 2014 Tsereteli signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia’s military first intervention in Ukraine. Tsereteli was supporting the Ukraine invasion even back in 2014! He’s a nice guy, his awards are to be treasured! I, for one, would love to get an award from Tsereteli.

Nice pic of Muti with the Russians here, at the Russian embassy in Vienna, at the end of 2021, just a couple of months before the war started, when the award was conferred!!

https://newsrnd.com/life/2021-10-28-riccardo-muti-honorary-academic-of-russia.r1m3Ux_LF.html

Who can boast to have received awards from both Putin and Tsereteli? As far as I know, our beloved Muti!

Muti also famously invited Gergiev to conduct his shiny toy, the Cherubini orchestra!! Muti and Gergiev were quite the couple in the Ravenna Festival! (It is really not my fault if Muti is involved with the Russians, I am not making it up and I am just a messenger.)

From the Russians to the French-Russians: Muti gave work to Gerard Depardieu, they performed Berlioz Lelio together. A nice video of Gerard having dinner with Putin here after getting Russian citizenship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDSNxgLRAM

French authorities have brought preliminary charges against Depardieu for allegedly raping the actress Charlotte Arnould on two occassions in August 2008. He has denied those allegations and all accusations of assault by other women. He is a Russian citizen now, he’s not going to get prosecuted for rape!

Muti and Depardied not only collaborated in classical music; they received the Legion of Honour (a jolly big deal!!) But wait – the current President of France Macron has gotten into big trouble presently for strongly praising Depardieu. President Macron rejected the suggestion by his own culture minister that Depardieu should lose the Legion of Honor, one of France’s highest awards, arguing it is merited for great artists who might be bad people. (Does Muti agree with Macron? We don’t know, though I could make an intelligent guess)

On the other hand, we do know what Muti thinks of MeToo: “With MeToo, Mozart would be in jail” (though there is no documentary or anecdotal evidence that Mozart ever raped anyone). What does Muti think of his buddy Depardieu rape charges? The rape allegedly happened two years before they collaborated on Berlioz and hung out in Chicago. Did Muti and Depardieu discussed MeToo and similar topics in Chicago? We don’t know.

(Note: Muti is also a buddy of Domingo, another man accused of assaulting women and having phone calls with sex traffickers. I am not saying it’s a pattern let’s be clear, I am just laying out the facts!)

From France to the Middle East: Muti, so active internationally, has not spoken to condemn Hamas and support Israel, but he loves peace and in my opinion should win the Nobel price. He visited Iran with the Cherubini orchestra; before him only Karajan (a member of the Nazi parti) visited the Iranian anti Zionist nation! We have also learned from another SD reader that Muti is wondering why the Israel Phil is not called Palestinian Orchestra :-((((

Long live Riccardo, Gergiev, Putin, Abdrazakov, the Iran theocracy, Depardieu, and Russia!

(and, Metoo sucks, something that we can all agree on, right?)