- ROME, FEB 24 - Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala on Thursday said
conductor Valery Gergiev, a supporter of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, must condemn the attack on Ukraine if he wants
to continue his collaboration with Teatro alla Scala, where he
is currently directing Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.
"We have at the Scala (theater) 'Pique Dame' directed by
Maestro Valery Gergiev who has repeatedly declared that he is
close to Putin", Sala said. "We have been asking him, with the
theater's superintendent, to take a clear position against this
invasion and, if he will not do it, we will be forced to end
this collaboration", said the mayor, commenting the latest
events in Ukraine during a debate with the former center-right
mayoral candidate in Milan and municipal councilor, Luca
Bernardo.
"We must intervene when faced with these situations", he
concluded.
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