Seen as "pro-Putin," the opera singer's concert at the May Festival in Wiesbaden, which prompted several Ukrainian artists and Russian punk band Pussy Riot to pull out, is now sold out.
Opera singer Anna Netrebko has star billing at the May Festival in Wiesbaden. But her ties to Vladimir Putin has caused an exodus of Ukrainian artists - and Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
The DuPage Symphony Orchestra and Maestra Barbara Schubert prepared a concert program called "American Spirituals & American Jazz" featuring the music of George Gershwin and William Grant Still.