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The opera prime minister with the participation of Gergiev and Netrebko caused protests in New York
Metropolitan Opera photo report
The activist reincarnated into the image of Oleg Tsareva shows a passers-by 1 million rubles from Anna Netrebko to restore the injured reputation of Metropolitan Opera on January 29 in New York, the ARTS AGINST AGGGRESSION group arranged a protest during the premier of Tchaikovsky in the theater Metropolitan Opera. At this day, Valery Gergiev, the main party was performed by Anna Netrebko, stood behind the conductor’s remote control. The foreign trips of Gergiev and Netrebko, who supported the policy of Vladimir Putin in relation to Ukraine last year, are not the first to be accompanied by protests of civilian activists for the first time. In the United States, promotions were held near the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Carnegie Hall, at Yale and Michigan Universities.
Protesters picket the theater, while Oleg Tsarev expresses outrage by their posters by the Arts Against Aggression group (at first they called themselves “Music Lovers AGGRESSION”) was created in April 2014 - shortly after the letter of Russian culture leaders in support of the Annax Crimea and aggression against Ukraine. Among other signatures, under this letter, the musicians Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Denis Matsuev and Igor Butman often set up in America. “We decided to unite and tell these musicians that we once beloved that we do not want to see them anymore in America,” says one of the group coordinators Dmitry Smelyansky. - The backbone of the group was made up of professional musicians, artists, scientists, students and professors. The group has many immigrants from the former Soviet Union, but not only. Our main goal is to explain to American concert organizations that, inviting such musicians in the United States, they become part of the Putin propaganda machine and destroy their reputation. ”
The member of the ARTS AGAINST AGGGRESSION group, portraying Anna Netrebko, sings the aria from the opera of Iolant for journalists. Among the real microphones, activists hold a false one, on which the name of the RT channel (“Russia Today”) deciphens as “Red Trash” (“Red Trash”) Anna Netrebko, opera singer, also fell into disgrace to the group’s activists. The scandal around her name arose in December 2014, when Netrebko transferred a million rubles to the chairman of the parliament of Novorossia Oleg Tsarev to restore the Donetsk Opera Theater and accepted the military banner of Novorossia from his hands. It was with this episode that the current theatrical action of Arts AGainst AgGRESSION was associated: two activists came to the premiere of “Ilanda”, reincarnating into the images of Oleg Tsarev and Anna Netrebko. At first, they posed for journalists before entering the theater, and then, under the cries of the rest of the protesters, “Netrebko and Gergiev support terrorism!”, “Let's say there is no Putin!”, “Shame of the Metro-Opera!” They merged with the opera public, trying to arrange a flash mob inside Metropolitan Opera. At the end of the performance, when the actors worshiped, one of the activists of the group Roman Totvitsky launched a poster on the stage condemning the Kremlin’s policy in Ukraine, after which he was detained by the police.
The activist in the image of Oleg Tsareva is trying to buy beer in the Metropolitan Opera buffet for Russian rubles 
