LONDON – 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’s ...

With her distinctive fashion sense and robust stage presence, it’s hard to imagine Russian soprano Anna Netrebko working as a janitor at Saint Petersburg’s historic theater of opera and ballet, The ...

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia has announced its plans for the new 245th season which will open on September 6 with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlos, General ...

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 ...

“We have spoken with her to invite to come. She said she would come as soon as shelling was over,” the theatre’s director general Yevgeny Denisenko said MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. World-acclaimed ...

The Royal Opera’s new season began with more than the usual sense of occasion. Demonstrations outside greeted Anna Netrebko’s return, but inside the house the focus – mostly – stayed on Puccini. The ...