Opening the La Scala season with
Russian opera composer Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece Boris
Godunov will not provide any propaganda for President Vladimir
Putin amid the Ukraine war, the superintendent of the iconic
Milanese opera house said Tuesday.
"We won't make any propaganda for Putin," said Dominique Meyer
in presenting the December 7 event that is a crowning highlight
of the Milanese social world's year.
Ukraine's consul in Milan has asked La Scala not to open its
season this year with Boris Godunov to avert possible propaganda
uses of the Mussorgsky classic.
Consul Adrii Kartysh has written to the superintendent of La
Scala Meyer, to the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala and
to the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana to ask to "review"
the theater's programming, not inaugurating the season on
December 7 with Boris Godunov, and also avoiding other Russian
shows so as not to pander to "any propaganda elements", the
consul said in a statement.
Meyer said Tuesday "there is nothing that is going against
Ukraine", only a show that has taken three years to prepare, and
a "great masterpiece".
He added: "I repeat, I'm not prepared to hide away if I'm
reading Dostoevskij or Puskin".
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