MILAN, June 6 (Reuters) – Italy’s La Scala will open its 2022-23 season with a efficiency of “Boris Godunov”, a Russian-composed opera carried out by Russian artists, with no plans for a cultural boycott regardless of the invasion of Ukraine.
“I am not for a witch hunt nor for the cancellation of Russian works,” Dominique Meyer, creative director of the theatre, instructed reporters. “I don’t disguise whereas studying [Russian writer Alexander] Pushkin.”
The unique selection of the opera was made just a few years in the past, he added.
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Written by Modest Mussorgsky, Russian bass and soprano Ildar Abdrazakov and Anna Denisova will play the primary roles in “Boris Godunov”. The beginning of the brand new season at La Scala in early December is likely one of the highlights of the Italian cultural calendar.
Instantly after the invasion of Ukraine in February, the Milan-based theatre stated Russian conductor Valery Gergiev wouldn’t carry out at La Scala after he did not condemn the struggle. learn extra
Responding to journalists asking what the distinction was in contrast with the Gergiev subject, Meyer stated La Scala regarded the Russian conductor nearly as a politician.
“He’s a kind of Russian Minister of Tradition. Different artists are in a unique place: they obtain prizes and awards however that doesn’t make them struggle supporters,” he added.
La Scala will carry out over 200 reveals within the 2022-23 season which can begin on December 7.
(This story corrects spelling of Pushkin in paragraph 2)
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