Milan's La Scala Opera House will not support the boycott of Russian culture and plans to open the next opera season on December 7 with the opera Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin.

According to the Italian edition of La Stampa, during a press conference, testra director Dominique Meyer said that "

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" I am against the abolition of Russian works, and when I read Pushkin, I do not hide,” Meyer said.. He added that he was delighted that the season premiere would be Boris Godunov, which is an absolute masterpiece.. Meyer also expressed the hope that by the feast of St. Ambrose (celebrated in Milan on December 7 - ed.. ) peace will come and there will be no problems with opening the season with Russian opera.

The program of the new season also includes the ballets "

Earlier, Russian opera diva Anna Netrebko returned to performances in the Milan theater, which she interrupted after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine..

The singer condemned the war that the Russian Federation unleashed in our country, but stated that she considers calls to artists to make political statements categorically wrong.

Recall that the Ukrainian film community was outraged by the statements of the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who presented his new film " In particular, he stated that he was against " In addition, Serebrennikov stated the need to help the victims of the war, both in Ukraine and in Russia..