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Anna Netrebko was dropped from opera venues amid controversy about her perceived closeness to President Putin.

She has, however, continued to perform in Austria and Italy, and will be singing in Germany next week. Antonio Pappano, who has been Covent Garden’s music director since 2002 and is about to embark on his final season there, is due to conduct Netrebko in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda during next year’s Salzburg Easter Festival.

Pappano said that the star, whom he described as “a very warm and talented human being”, had “distanced herself from any kind of perception of support for the war and for the regime”.

He said: “I do think that in all this you do have to consider that these people have families in Russia. So one has to be careful what one says and, and how one attempts to cancel somebody from the horizon of their work and their life. There’s a lot of inept cancelling going on in the world.”

“The conditions are not right for her to be performing here,” he said.