Setting Record Straight: Russian Opera Star Tunes Out Row Over Putin Ties
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Russia-Ukraine War: Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko said, "I expressly condemn the war against Ukraine and my thoughts are with the victims of this war and their families."
Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko on Wednesday condemned the war in Ukraine and said she would return to the stage after canceling concerts in the wake of criticism that she was close to the Kremlin.
As many Russian artists face pressure to publicly denounce Putin's invasion or risk losing their engagements, Netrebko -- one of the world's best-known opera singers -- said on Facebook that she wanted to set the record straight and did not support President Vladimir Putin.
"I expressly condemn the war against Ukraine and my thoughts are with the victims of this war and their families," she wrote.
Netrebko, 50, said she was "neither a member of a political party nor am I linked to any leader of Russia", and admitted that she "recognizes and regrets that my actions and statements in the past could in part be misconstrued".
