The Ukrainian consul does not want the “Boris” on the ladder. But he is wrong

Given that between the aggressor and the attacked one sided with the attacked, that the Ukrainians do very well to defend themselves and that they know very well to do so, the letter with which their consul in Milan, Andrii Kartysh, asks La Scala to postpone the Boris Godunov of Sant’Ambroeus the classic pee made out of the potty appears. Not in the name of the operatic sovereignty already claimed by some commentators, for which La Scala chooses the programming (often mistaken, actually), we do not allow the repertoire to be imposed on us by the foreigner and so on. And not even because changing opera three weeks before the “premiere” is pure science fiction: no one expects diplomats to know how a theater works, but at least they could be told that the titles are chosen years before they are put on stage. So that ’22 -’23 Scala would begin with a Russian opera in Russian was decided long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.