On the stage, the Russian Netrebko and the Ukrainian activist protest against “propaganda against Putin”.

This year too, the Prima della Scala sparks protests in the Ukrainian community. If the problem in 2022 was the choice of “Boris Godunov” to open the Scala season in Milan, this year the target of the protests is the soprano Anna Netrebko, who will play Elisabetta Di Valois in “Don Carlo”. The artist “has always been closely linked to the Putin regime, of which she is a propagandist,” complains the Ukrainian activist Valeriya Kaltschenko from Piazza della Scala, who appeared with posters against “Terro-Russia” and Netrebko, “about which she never spoke has”. against the war and is linked to the Putin regime. With the beginning of the war she was forced out of other theaters, but in Italy she was welcomed with open arms. “This is unacceptable,” he denounces.