From the stage to the hospital. Singer Monetochka started to suffocate during a concert in Riga 0 5

The concert of popular Russian singer Monetochka in Riga ended unexpectedly dramatically: during her performance, she suddenly felt unwell, an ambulance had to be called, and the artist was taken to the hospital. The interrupted concert was canceled.

27-year-old Monetochka performed on Sunday at the Spēlēt concert hall in Riga. She had already engaged the audience when the unexpected happened — the singer suddenly had difficulty breathing, and an ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. Her husband and children were present at the concert.

Later on her Instagram, Monetochka revealed that she experienced an attack of angioedema during the concert and began to suffocate right on stage. The singer admitted that she had faced such attacks before, but this was the first time it happened during a performance. She added that after receiving injections at the hospital, she was able to breathe normally again.

According to the website medicine.lv, angioedema is a localized swelling of tissues that occurs in episodes due to vascular innervation disorders. The disease was first described by German physician H. Quincke in 1882. The basis of the swelling is an allergic reaction of the blood vessels in the skin and other tissues to an irritant. Such irritants can include inflammatory foci in the body, food products (eggs, chocolate, milk, strawberries, nuts, etc.), pollen, alcohol, nicotine, hypothermia, and stress. Angioedema can also be triggered by diseases of the digestive organs. Young people are most often affected. During an attack, blood vessels dilate and become permeable, leading to swelling. It most commonly appears on the face, neck, hands, in the mouth, throat, and respiratory tract. It occurs suddenly and usually resolves within a few hours or days.

Elizaveta Gyrdymova, known by the stage name Monetochka, condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and, along with her husband, producer Viktor Isaev, left the country, moving to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Both of their children were born in exile. Together with the well-known rapper Noize MC, she held a series of charity concerts called Voices of Peace in ten European cities in the spring of 2022, donating the proceeds to the Polish fund Siepomaga for providing medical, food, and other humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees. The musicians reported that they raised 340,000 euros in this way. On February 24, 2023 — the first anniversary of the invasion — the eleventh charity concert of the tour took place in Istanbul, where another 80,000 euros were raised.

Her homeland did not delay in reminding her of itself: on January 20, 2023, the singer was declared a "foreign agent" and administrative cases were initiated against her, and on September 6, 2024, a criminal case was opened. On October 18, she was declared wanted.

Thanks to the Voices of Peace project, in 2024, Monetochka and Noize MC were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.