A musically thrilling evening with ‘Putin’s diva’
Anna Netrebko singing in 2012 – her voice is darker, heavier, wilder than last time we heard it in the UK
Simon Wedege Petersen / Wikimedia Commons
Whatever your views on cultural boycott, the commercial fact remains that if audiences weren’t fighting to see Netrebko the Royal Opera wouldn’t book her.
Tosca
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
What is an opera company for? Who is it for? And, how should it serve them best? Onstage, opera confronts us with all kinds of moral dilemmas: questions about power, class, faith, violence. But the ethics of opera itself are something we tend to push aside, until some hundred protesters spend a week camped outside the Royal Opera.
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