MILAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Milan’s well-known La Scala opera home has defended its resolution to open its new season subsequent month with “Boris Godunov” regardless of criticism from Ukrainians about staging a Russian work.
Earlier this month the Ukrainian consul in Milan Andrii Kartysh wrote to the top of the theatre and native political leaders to protest over plans to stage the opera written by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky within the nineteenth century.
“We took that call three years in the past, it was unimaginable to cancel it and certainly why ought to we cancel it?” La Scala creative director, Dominque Meyer, advised a information convention.
“We don’t do propaganda in favour of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and there’s nothing in opposition to Ukraine,” he added.
Russian bass and soprano Ildar Abdrazakov and Anna Denisova are forged in the primary roles for the manufacturing. The opening of a brand new season at La Scala is without doubt one of the highlights of Italy’s cultural calendar.
“Mussorgsky with this opera has challenged energy – that is one motive why it’s proper to stage it”, mentioned director Kasper Holten depicting Boris Godunov as a narrative about energy and cynicism.
Instantly after the invasion of Ukraine in February, the Milan-based theatre mentioned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev wouldn’t carry out at La Scala after he did not condemn the battle.
Reporting by Sara Rossi, enhancing by Keith Weir and Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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