She has appeared in 192 performances at the house, the last a New Year’s Eve gala she starred in on Dec. Netrebko made her Met debut on Feb, 14, 2002, in Prokofiev’s “War and Peace” and quickly became a house favorite. There was no immediate response from Netrebko to Gelb’s announcement. It is an extremely difficult decision for me, but I know that my audience will understand and respect this decision.” I have therefore decided to take a step back from performing for the time being. “This is not a time for me to make music and perform. “I am opposed to this senseless war of aggression and I am calling on Russia to end this war right now, to save all of us.
Her next listed performance was at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on April 3, followed by three concerts with her husband, Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov, and an April 13 concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. On Tuesday, Netrebko withdrew from all her upcoming performances. She was photographed in 2014 holding a Novorussian flag after giving a 1 million ruble donation (then $18,500) to the opera hose in Donetsk, a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russia separatists. Netrebko, a 50-year-old from Krasnodar, received the People’s Artist of Russia honor from Putin in 2008. The ripple effects have also reached the international sports world. The invasion of Ukraine has led to a show of solidarity in the arts and culture world with Ukrainians and a backlash against the Russian government and those with ties to it that won’t reject Putin’s actions. The Met’s decision followed the collapse of the international career of Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has been close to Putin as artistic and general director of the Mariinsky in St. The Met made repeated efforts in recent days attempting to convince Netrebko to repudiate Putin but failed to persuade her, a person familiar with the developments said, speaking on condition of anonymity because that detail was not announced. Gelb had said Sunday that the Met would not engage artists who support Putin. “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,” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said in a statement Thursday. NEW YORK – Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera rather than repudiate her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, costing the company one of its top singers and best box-office draws.
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