Liudmyla Monastryska, wearing the Ukrainian flag, acclaimed at the Met Opera

Liudmyla Monastryska was given a standing ovation by the audience at New York’s Met Opera when she returned to the stage during the encores after Saturday’s performance of Turandot. Appearing wearing a flag in the colors of her country, the Ukrainian soprano replaced Anna Netrebko, whom the New York institution had deprogrammed.

Liudmyla Monastryska will also replace Hibla Gerzmava in Tosca next season in New York

The appearance of Liudmyla Monastryska wearing the Ukrainian flag during the encores after the performance of Turandot drew cheers from the public on Saturday in New York. An image strong in symbols, just like the choice of the direction of the Met Opera of a Ukrainian soprano to replace Anna Netrebko who was to sing the title role of Giacomo Puccini’s opera in April and May, a role that Christine Goerke will take over at the ‘fall. Despite recent statements by the Russian soprano condemning the armed intervention in Ukraine, the management of the Met has maintained its suspension until further notice.

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It is also Liudmyla Monastryska who will replace Hibla Gerzmava at Lincoln Center next season in Tosca by Puccini. The Abkhazian soprano, of Russian origin, considered close to the Kremlin, was also dismissed by the Met Opera. Liudmyla Monastryska, who debuted at the Met in 2012, hadn’t been there since 2017 when she sang, at the time, in Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi.

Liudmyla Monastyrska’s Curtain Call in the colors of freedom on Saturday, April 30, night at ⁦@MetOpera⁩ https://t.co/dE9Fj4bpDe

— Sergiy Kyslytsya (@SergiyKyslytsya) May 1, 2022

Liudmyla Monastryska will take part in the tour of the Ukrainian Orchestra for Freedom

From the start of the conflict, Liudmyla Monastryska spoke out publicly against Russian intervention. The images of his moving embrace with the Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova at the end of a performance ofAida by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples at the end of February had gone around the world on social networks. The Ukrainian singer will also take part in the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s tour in July and August in Europe and the United States.

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