While some doors are opening - for example, the famous singer Anna Netrebko, who has said she regrets her support for the separatists in Donetsk and her closeness to the Kremlin and has been offered engagements in Naples and Zurich - there are others for whom the doors are closing in the face of tacit (or not) support for Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Russian opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov will not be performing at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Italy, where he was due to appear in "Don Giovanni" in January 2026.
The Verona Arena Foundation, which organises the opera performances, curtly announced in a brief statement on Thursday that it had withdrawn Abdrazakov from the programme.
It was the Lib
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