Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees.

March 27, 2022Posted inBeczala, Piotr (1966- ), Buialskyi, Vladyslav, Classical Music, DeShong, Elizabeth, Eugene Onegin (Opera), Gaffigan, James (1979- ), Gergiev, Valery, Golovatenko, Igor, Jagde, Brian (Singer), Madama Butterfly (Opera), Metropolitan Opera, Music, Netrebko, Anna, Opera, Perez , Ailyn (1979- ), Putin, Vladimir V, Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
The company’s revival of “Eugene Onegin” gives the lie to the Russian president’s claim that his country’s composers are suffering in the West.