NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- After a chaotic week, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from performances at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.
"It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera," Met Opera general manager Peter Gelb said in a statement Thursday."Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward."
The Met's message now that she has been withdrawn from performances after"not complying with the Met's condition that she repudiate her public support for Vladimir Putin while he wages war on Ukraine," is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. 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.
"I am not a politician and I have no influence on political decisions. But I am an artist and I can use my voice to express my opposition to the war that takes place just across the border of my beloved motherland," Beczała wrote.
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