It’s official: Gergiev gets an extra opera house

It’s official: Gergiev gets an extra opera house

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norman lebrecht

August 23, 2015

Earlier this year we reported that President Putin had gifted his pal Valery a new opera house. The Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, inauguarated in October 2013 on the Pacific coast,  is now to be run from the Baltic coast by the Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

Today it was announced that the merger will take effect on January 1, 2016, after which date the Primorsky Theatre will be known as Marinsky 4.

Its director will be the mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova but productions and casts will be imported unchanged from St Petersburg.

 

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