![]() ![]() But I was also asked to declare myself against Vladimir Putin. In regard to Putin and the Ukraine war, Netrebko told Le Monde, “The Met was the first to insist that I clarify my position. She is expected to seek more than $350,000 in compensation.” She recently asserted, in an interview with Le Monde, the French daily paper, that in a conversation with Gelb, she consented to withdraw from a production of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot this season, but that the Met’s general manager added Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo in the 2022-2023 season “unilaterally.”Īccording to the Times, with the assistance of the American Guild of Musical Artists, the union representing opera singers, Netrebko “filed a labor grievance against the Met. Netrebko’s grievance involves the circumstances of her banning by the Met. The notion that the American arts and entertainment world would “never again” succumb to McCarthyite witch-hunting, as it did wholeheartedly in the 1940s and 1950s, has been disproven at almost the first opportunity. The various claims made by Gelb and the Met Opera as to Netrebko’s supposedly close relationship with Putin are a smokescreen, intended to disguise the fact that it is the Met that is pursuing a thoroughly reactionary, anti-democratic course of action, joining in the chauvinist, warmongering anti-Russian campaign. One of America’s leading arts institutions has established the principle that it will enforce whatever the government’s foreign policy requires, that it is entirely at the disposal of the White House and the Pentagon. The Met Opera, under General Manager Peter Gelb, moved to ban Netrebko in early March following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, claiming she had not done enough to disassociate herself from the Putin regime.Īside from the crass hypocrisy of the action (the Met has never responded in like manner to any of the bloody, neo-colonial wars prosecuted by the US over the past 30 years), the exclusion of Netrebko sets a sinister precedent. ![]() Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, one of the world’s most renowned opera singers, has reportedly filed a grievance against the Metropolitan Opera in New York. ![]()
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