The Agency from the United States informed the fan about the cancellation of West’s concert in St. Petersburg

Representatives of the American agency Access Opera, which acts as a partner of the concert tour of Kanye West, told one of the spectators who bought tickets for the performance of the rapper in St. Petersburg that the event will not take place.

Access Opera was approached by St. Petersburg resident Maxim, he wrote to the official account of the agency in Instagram (the social network belongs to the Meta Corporation, whose activities are recognized as extremist in Russia and banned). Screenshots of the response were published by Fontanka.

"The show has been cancelled and has been removed from Yeezy and Access Opera," the statement said. Gazprom [Arena] publicly stated that there was no contract. Without a venue, the artist cannot perform. All requests should be sent to Say Agency, the agency added.

RBC sent requests to Say Agency, which organizes West’s concerts in Russia, as well as to Access Opera.

Kanye West’s concerts were announced on October 10 and 11 at Gazprom Arena. The organizer announced them on August 17. The cost of tickets reached 160 thousand rubles. for seats in the VIP-bed. According to the head of Say Agency Subcheva, 81 thousand tickets were sold for the first day.

West's tour was supposed to be part of the world tour in support of the album Bully and the first full-scale concert of the rapper in Russia - in 2024 he came to Moscow only on a private visit.

A dispute over the Kanye West concerts in St. Petersburg arose between Say Agency and Gazprom Arena shortly after the event was announced. At the end of August, the venue said that it was not the organizer of the event and did not sign a lease agreement. Say Agency then claimed that the contract with West was still signed, and with the site, which previously had no problems, it remained only to issue a lease.

Later, Gazprom Arena reported that concerts of foreign performers were not planned next month. In response, Say Agency released photos of documents that the agency claimed confirmed the agreement to rent an arena for the foreign artist's performance in October.

Subsequently, these publications, as well as statements that West’s concert will definitely take place and will not be canceled or postponed, were removed from the agency’s Telegram channel.

After the appeals of ticket buyers, Rospotrebnadzor issued a warning to Say Edgency LLC. The agency said it transferred the claims of the department to lawyers. This week in a telegram chat Say Agency promised to return the money in case of cancellation of the concert and said that they continue to work on its holding.

Meanwhile, a week earlier, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture Stanislav Moldovanov told one of the buyers that the event was not agreed with the city authorities. Fontanka wrote about it.

The foreign Ministry said earlier that Russia did not close the entry for artists, except for those who, according to the representative of the Ministry Maria Zakharova, “confess Nazi ideology.”.