{"id":357337,"date":"2022-11-12T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=357337"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:05:19","slug":"la-scala-responds-to-call-to-cancel-russian-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/la-scala-responds-to-call-to-cancel-russian-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"La Scala responds to call to &#8216;cancel&#8217; Russian composers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Culture should never be penalized because of politics. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The opera house says that works of culture should not suffer because of the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Milan&#8217;s famed La Scala theater has insisted that Russian culture should not be \u201cpenalized\u201d because of the military operation against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Management defended its decision to include the works of Russian composers in its newest program after a Ukrainian consul called them instruments of Moscow\u2019s propaganda campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian news agency ANSA, Andrey Kartysh, Ukraine\u2019s consul general in Milan, sent a letter to La Scala CEO Dominique Meyer, as well as Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala and the head of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, asking to \u201creview\u201d its program for the 2022-2023 season in order to avoid \u201cpotential elements of propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat cited the \u201cgreat disappointment and regret\u201d of the Ukrainian community in Italy. \u201cCulture is being used by the Russian Federation to lend weight to its assertions of greatness and power,\u201d he wrote, arguing that \u201cthe pandering to its propaganda can only fuel the image of the regime [in Moscow] and, by extension, its evil ambitions and countless crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/pop-culture\/566394-la-scala-russian-composers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0264PKbSLQNJ4veoYq7A4N3rKsXKcBJdbiFKonU9oqFdpR5R7N5dUfS4tVaDtW1Xt5l&amp;id=694189344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Culture should never be penalized because of politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":357338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}