After a chaotic week, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from performances at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.
. She was set to perform in the Met's"Turandot" later in the spring and was scheduled to perform in the 2022-23 season, which the Met announced Feb. 23.
The Met's message now that she has been withdrawn from performances after"not complying with the Met's condition that she repudiate her public support for Vladimir Putin while he wages war on Ukraine," is sending loud reverberations through the industry.Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, congratulates Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko after awarding her with the People's Artist of Russia honor at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 27, 2008.
In a series of Instagram posts over the weekend, Netrebko called for peace and voiced her opposition to the war, but did not mention Putin. "Forcing artists, or any public figure, to voice their political opinions in public and to denounce their homeland is not right. This should be a free choice. Like many of my colleagues, I am not a political person. I am not an expert in politics. I am an artist and my purpose is to unite people across political divides," she wrote on an Instagram post Saturday.
She went on to say in an Instagram story,"It's especially despicable from people from the West, seated comfortable in their home, not fearing for their lives, to pretend to be brave and pretending to 'fight' by putting in trouble artists who asked nothing.
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