Anna Netrebko bows to a Ukrainian flag
NewsA first review in the French Forum Opera site of the Russian soprano’s jump-in as Manon Lescaut in Monte Carlo shows her taking a bow with the rest of the cast beneath a Ukrainian flag.
This may not have been her intention. Or maybe it was. Either way, it won’t play well in the Kremlin.
Read the full review here.
Hypocrite, opportunist, liar, coarse, little musicianship, nothing of interest, and a voice in shambles. Go home.
And who are you exactly, other than a vitriol-sputtering vile hating non entity?
How hateful! No wonder there are wars in this world when people speak like that about another human being, and sit in judgement as this perfect person. You don’t like her singing, fine, but no need to be so disgustingly horrible and attack her as a person, and all based what you read – unless you know her personally. This says more about you than it does about her, which is a great pity.
It’s quite impossible to take that review seriously.
Honestly I don’t understand this huge amount of hate and anger against Netrebko!
One thing that you don’t like her personality, voice, singing, but why attack her over and over about the war?
She made several statements, even if they were not clear at the beginning or late, but at the end she made it clear she is against the war.
So every Russian artists will be punished because of a terrorist Putin? There are lot of Russian artist who didn’t make any statement and keep on singing in Russia, don’t get any attention, they have still engagements in the west.
Netrebko has good moments, but im not her fan at all, but I don’t find fair this witch hunt against her
As of yet no Russian artist has been punished in place of Putin. However, some have lost engagements because they, like Netrebko, actively has supported Putin. As you call him a terrorist, that does not seem overtly unreasonable.
‘Has’ is the word. Or, better, ‘had’. Like many others (your polititians and artists and opera houses via oligarchs money) she shook hands with Putin in the past. Now he’s gone crazy and she has distanced herself.
Is this so difficult to get I wonder?!!!
She’s as phony as a $3.00 bill…whichever way the wind is blowing, she’ll bend. Who can admire such a woman, or believe anything she says?
I’ve seen her interviewed and found her, let’s say, not very bright. This may explain quite a lot.
Someone who can learn a role in two weeks and have a top international career lasting 20+ years is not bright… and what are your credentials, Sue Sonata, jumping into conclusions from one interview (on which, as we should know, there are many multiple factors involved)??! Very bright indeed.
She is bright enough to keep making money no matter what. Rather than saying “not very ‘bright’, I would say she is shallow.
I thought it was really disappointing that none of her “friends” came out to defend her, and please inform me if I am wrong. There wasn’t any shortage of artists defending Placido.
Friends like whom, for example? Beczała, Salsi, maybe Armiliato… apart from them, I don’t really see who could be called her friend. Of course I’m not talking about other russians and azeris. Well, Kaufmann says in interviews that he is against banning Russian artists, generally but it is not clear whether he means her too (he rather has no reason to feel sympathy for her, but maybe he does not make exceptions).
It’s her history with the dictator
Nothing to do with music or Netrebko. It’s pure and simple geopolitics!
Is there any possibility that next month she ll bow to a russian flag?
Frankly, it’s an insult to the Ukrainian people. If Monaco wants to employ that pair of Putin’s lapdogs that’s their business but they could spare themselves that Ukrainian flag. The Himalayas of hypocrisy. https://www.instagram.com/p/BupOTBFAMqm/
The French Forum Opera review was glowing for both Netrebko and Eyvazov. Anna was “dazzling” and Eyvazov is “one of the most impressive tenors of the moment.” Perhaps that is why it wasn’t translated into English by Slipped Disc.
Not so long ago, the same portal published a review of Khovanshchina staged at Opera Bastille written by a guy who himself admitted that he did not know the opera at all and was listening to it for the first time. And another one criticized the English pronunciation of Bryn Terfel in Peter Grimes. So it is BETTER not to know what they write there.