Milan opera house, La Scala, opens the new season with the opera “Boris Godunov” by Modest Mussorgsky.
In addition, the ballet season of the Milan Opera will include Tchaikovsky's “The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake” and Prokofiev's “Romeo and Juliet”.
«I’m not for a witch hunt. I do not support the rejection of russian works. I do not hide while reading Pushkin», Mayer said. He also stressed that "one thing is differences between countries, and another - masterpieces".
During the 3.5 months of the war, russian troops destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian cultural sites.