Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and Dmitry Korchak in Norma / Photograph: Roberto Ricci
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, who cements her reversion again to soprano after having sung Adalgisa simply final summer season, seems right here in a efficiency recorded in Parma a couple of weeks in the past. The Occasions, nevertheless, lately reported a long-circulated rumor (denied by Berzhanskaya) that the soprano has been “romantically linked with Mikhail Simonyan, a violinist and conductor who has carried out for troopers in Russian-held territory in japanese Ukraine.” One wonders how Berzhanskaya managed to skirt Peter Gelb’s Russian artist embargo to make her Met debut final season.
Her Pollione, tenor Dmitry Korchak, is equally implicated: based on Opern.Information, Korchak lately counter-sued the Wiener Staatsoper for the cancellation of a contract over the accusation that he has appeared a number of instances in Russian Authorities-organized live shows in addition to straight benefitted from authorities funds for artists. Korchak, who has additionally lately expanded his duties to incorporate conducting, prevailed in his go well with in opposition to the Staatsoper and sang as Ernesto in Don Pasquale there final week.
Bellini: Norma, “In mia man alfin tu sei”
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya
Dmitry Korchak
Teatro Regio di Parma
February 2026
In-house
