While her Russian homeland also bombed Ukraine with combat drones and rockets at the weekend, the 51-year-old, who lives in Vienna, showed up at the festively set New Year’s table in an evening dress with her family.
A few days earlier, she had written in a post that the end of the year was cause for reflection. “And I should say that despite all the storms that have come down on me, this year has been a very good one!” she wrote. “It was better than the past.”
The internationally acclaimed Austro-Russian soprano was criticized for her alleged closeness to President Vladimir Putin after the start of the Russian war against Ukraine. In the past, she had also been photographed with the flag of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. In the course of criticism and the cancellation of concerts and opera performances in Germany, the USA and other western countries, she had distanced herself from Putin in writing. This brought her sharp criticism and performance cancellations in Russia.
“My position is clear. I am not a member of any political party, nor am I affiliated with any Russian leader,” she said through her lawyer in March. “I recognize and regret that some of my actions or statements in the past could be misinterpreted. In fact, I have only met President Putin a handful of times in my entire life, primarily at art awards ceremonies or at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games.”
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