Since the war started, Netrebko's performances at the Metropolitan Opera—where she has sung for 20 years—have been canceled indefinitely. Other leading opera houses, including in Munich and in Zurich, also scrapped upcoming performances thanks to her past support of the Russian President
Anna Netrebko takes a bow after performing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Dec. 31, 2019. The superstar soprano, whose past support of the Russian president Vladimir Putin cost her many engagements after the invasion of Ukraine, said in a statement that she was not “allied with any leader of Russia.”
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