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Valery Gergiev to Return to Italy for Summer Festival

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(Photo by Valeri Guérguiev) Valery Gergiev is set to return to Italy this summer. The Putin-supporter will conduct during the Un’Estate da RE Festival at the Reggia di Caserta. The concert will be held on July 27, 2025, and Gergiev will conduct the Orchestra filarmonica “G. Verdi” di Salerno with soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre. This will mark his first {…}

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Valery Gergiev Reportedly Abandons Performance at Bolshoi Theatre to Conduct Another Show

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Earlier this week, Valery Gergiev abandoned a performance of Mussorgsky’s “Salammbo” in order to conduct another performance at another theater on the same night. According to various telegram channels and a report from Slippedisc, “Valery Gergiev left one of the premiere performances at the Bolshoi Theater to conduct a performance of a song based on the poems of Maria Zakharova.” {…}

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Putin Supporter Valery Gergiev Named Chair of Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize

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(Credit: Valeri Guérguiev) Russian conductor and Putin loyalist Valery Gergiev has been appointed to chair the jury for Russia’s newly established Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize. The new prize awards an organization for “outstanding achievements in activities aimed at countering the threat of unleashing a third world war and at preventing a nuclear catastrophe.” The inaugural award was presented on {…}

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Valery Gergiev Elected Co-Chairman of the Union of Theater Performers of Russia

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Valery Gergiev has been elected co-chairman of the Union of Theater Performers of Russia. The Pro-Putin artist was elected to the position on Dec. 4, 2023 by the Congress of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, the General Director of the Great Theater of Russia, and the Artistic Director – Director of the Mariinsky Theater. This is the second {…}

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Valery Gergiev Officially Bolshoi Theatre’s General Manager

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Valery Gergiev has officially been named the Bolshoi Theatre’s new General Director. The Russian government’s Telegram account said Gergiev’s term will “be a five-year term under an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail V. Mishustin.” Gergiev will replace Vladimir Urin who according to the Telegram account was “relieved of this position at his own request.” The news comes only weeks {…}

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Valery Gergiev to Become General Director of Bolshoi Theatre

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Valery Gergiev is set to become the General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre. According to Opera Magazine, the Russian conductor will replace Vladimir Urin and will remain head of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Gergiev will be the first leader of both major Russian theaters for the first time since Tsarist times. The news comes a year after Putin {…}