Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, says the opera won't 'be working with any artists who are supporting Putin or who Putin supports.' ShawnMcCreesh reports on the ban and its impact
Photo: Jonathan Tichler Last night, the 24-year-old bass-baritone Vladylsav Buialskyi made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Vlad’s mind, however, was 5,000 miles east in Ukraine, with his friends and family in Berdyansk, a port on the sea of Azov. When the Sputnik chandeliers ascended, Vlad was not in the role of the Flemish deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlos, for which he had rehearsed.
But who does that mean, exactly? Artistic connections between Russia and the rest of the opera and classical worlds run deep — and for Gelb and the Met in particular. Gelb’s wife, the conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, often performs in Russia and was due to conduct in Odessa, Ukraine, next week. Gelb took one of the last flights out of Moscow before heavy sanctions and European airspace bans went into effect. “The Russian people I was with, nobody thought this would happen,” says Gelb.
And that is just to start. “Opera is a global art,” says Justin Davidson, New York’s opera and classical-music critic. “The Met is a thoroughly international company, and the pipeline of Russian talent has been as crucial to American opera since the 1990s as the gas pipeline is to German industry. To see that choked off is a loss, but it’s one we can bear without too much hardship.”
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