Anna Netrebko’s return to Covent Garden was always going to be contentious. The Russian soprano, 53, was pictured in 2014 bringing gifts to Russian-armed separatists in Crimea. Two years earlier, she ...

From Judge Analisa Torres's decision in Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n, Inc.: In the [earlier order], the Court found that Netrebko did not allege direct evidence of discriminatory intent….

More than three years into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, many Western cultural institutions that had distanced themselves from Russian artists as a gesture of solidarity with Ukraine are ...

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s storied Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere Sunday with a Russian opera for the second time since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But this year, instead of ...

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday ...

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s storied Teatro alla Scala celebrated its gala season premiere Sunday with a Russian opera for the second time since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But this year, instead of ...

Several hundred protesters have gathered outside the Royal Opera House in London. They call for the cancellation of concerts by Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko after organisers ignored similar ...

Milan’s Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere with a Russian opera, Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” MILAN -- Milan’s storied Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala ...

MILAN — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied theater ...

ROME (Reuters) -An Italian opera house has cancelled performances by a Russian singer seen as close to President Vladimir Putin, in a move welcomed by the Italian government. Russian bass Ildar ...