Dear Mr. Matthias Schulz and Members of the Opernhaus Zürich Direction,   We are writing to express our concern and to suggest a way forward regarding the recent decision to engage soprano Anna Netrebko for La forza del destino  in the 2025/26 season. In your recent interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung  (16 October 2025), you emphasised that artists must not be used as “scapegoats” for political circumstances and that your decision was made “first and foremost on artistic grounds.” We...

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