Music maestro Valery Gergiev was sacked three years before his contract was due to end because he refused to submit to Dieter’s call for him to denounce Putin’s “brutal war of aggression.”
“And Anna Netrebko, the Russian diva who is one of opera’s biggest international stars and also has ties to Mr. Putin, saw her upcoming engagements with the Bavarian State Opera canceled, and the Zurich Opera House announced that she had withdrawn from her next performances there,” reports the New York Times.
Reiter had given Gergiev until Monday to respond to a “demand” that he express his ideological conformity, but it wasn’t forthcoming.
According to the Times, the star conductor had been subjected to “widespread anger and condemnation” over his wrongthink.
The Russian-born chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic was fired from his job after refusing to acknowledge Mayor Dieter Reiter’s demand that he condemn Vladimir Putin.
Music maestro Valery Gergiev was sacked three years before his contract was due to end because he refused to submit to Dieter’s call for him to denounce Putin’s “brutal war of aggression.”
“And Anna Netrebko, the Russian diva who is one of opera’s biggest international stars and also has ties to Mr. Putin, saw her upcoming engagements with the Bavarian State Opera canceled, and the Zurich Opera House announced that she had withdrawn from her next performances there,” reports the New York Times.
Reiter had given Gergiev until Monday to respond to a “demand” that he express his ideological conformity, but it wasn’t forthcoming.
According to the Times, the star conductor had been subjected to “widespread anger and condemnation” over his wrongthink.
“I would have expected him to reconsider and revise his very positive assessment of Russia’s leader,” Mr. Reiter said in a statement. “He didn’t.”
Gergiev was also dismissed from his position as honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestra said it was eliminating its “Gergiev Festival” over the Russian’s refusal to support Ukraine.
(...) Summit News
