“I’m so grateful to the theater, to all the people who helped to do this.” In some moments it was so sensitive and hard to not show my emotions,” he said later. The concert began with the 23-year-old Ukrainian bass-baritone as soloist in front of the Met orchestra and chorus and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starting the 90-minute program with Ukraine’s national anthem.īuialsky struggled to hold back tears, and tapped his heart. With three huge yellow-and-blue Ukraine flags draped across the front of the house, the Met held a benefit for the under-attack nation. With electricity out because of Russia’s invasion, he didn’t want her wasting power for the Internet stream. NEW YORK (AP) - Vladyslav Buialskyi spoke to his mother from Berdyansk, a Ukraine seaside town, and told her not to listen to him take the stage at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Met announced over the weekend it would cut ties with performers and institutions who voiced support for Putin.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will replace Netrebko in Puccini's "Turandot" this April and May. "It's hard to imagine a scenario in which Anna will return to the Met," Gelb said. The Russian prima donna - who has voiced pro-Kremlin views over the years, and in 2014 posed with a rebel flag in the contested Donetsk region - will also no longer play Elisabeth de Valois in the 2022–23 Met performances of "Don Carlo."Ĭontacted by AFP, Gelb elaborated that Netrebko will likely never perform again at the Met, where over the past two decades she's sung nearly 200 performances.
"Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward."
"It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera," said Met General Manager Peter Gelb. The withdrawal is a major break at one of the world's most prestigious companies where Netrebko, a reigning luminary of opera, has proven a durable headliner and box office draw.
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