The Met may be closed but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy opera from the comfort of your own couch. The Ultimate Cord Cutting Guide for Sports Fans.Here's Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video This Week.How to Watch Sports on Regional Sports Networks (RSNs).In the world of classical music, superstar soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from the Metropolitan Opera in New York after refusing repudiate her support of Putin. Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, several cultural institutions have started barring Russian artists. La Scala in Milan also barred Gergiev from performances of an opera by Tchaikovsky. The Russian conductor had already been declared persona non grata by European concert halls, in Germany where he had been dismissed from directing the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as in France and Italy.

'This is unacceptable and not something the Academy can be associated with,' she added.Ī member since 2011, Gergiev had an honorary position within the prestigious Scandinavian institution, which is one of the ten Swedish royal academies in, like the academies responsible for designating Nobel Prize winners. 'Through his close ties with the Russian government which today is attacking Ukraine, we find that he has acted in a way that we cannot afford not to distance ourselves from,' Susanna Ryden, president of the academy told AFP. The academy, which cited his relationship with the Kremlin and Russian president Vladimir Putin, said it had demanded Gergiev take a stand against the invasion.

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