This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows the Met Orchestra and Chorus in “A Concert for Ukraine” at the Metropolitan Opera on March 14, 2022. With three huge yellow-and-blue Ukraine flags draped across the front of the house, the Met held a benefit for the under-attack nation.
Ukraine’s flag is draped outside The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York before a benefit for Ukraine concert, Monday, March 14, 2022.
NEW YORK (AP) — Vladyslav Buialskyi spoke to his mother from Berdyansk, a Ukraine seaside town, and told her not to listen to him take the stage at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
With electricity out because of Russia’s invasion, he didn’t want her wasting power for the Internet stream.
With three huge yellow-and-blue Ukraine flags draped across the front of the house, the Met held a benefit for the under-attack nation. The concert began with the 23-year-old Ukrainian bass-baritone as soloist in front of the Met orchestra and chorus and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starting the 90-minute program with Ukraine’s national anthem.
Buialsky struggled to hold back tears, and tapped his heart.
“It was so emotional and powerful. In some moments it was so sensitive and hard to not show my emotions,” he said later. “I’m so grateful to the theater, to all the people who helped to do this.”
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, was introduced from the parterre level and received a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of about 3,600. Tickets sold out within 10 minutes last week at $25, and additional money was raised in online donations.
Met general manager Peter Gelb, who last week dropped star Russian soprano Anna Netrebko from future performances over her failure to condemn Russia President Vladimir Putin, also received a standing ovation.
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