The relative values of Petrenko vs Petrenko

The relative values of Petrenko vs Petrenko

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norman lebrecht

April 22, 2016

Tomorrow, Vasily Petrenko makes his conducting debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, at the invitation of its music director, Kirill Petrenko.

The two Petrenkos, unrelated, are both products of late-Soviet educational values. One is music director in Liverpool and Oslo, the other is incoming chief of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Andrew Powell has compiled an entertaining chart of comparative qualities in his blog here.

Sample:

Placing the two Petrenkos side by side here, like baseball cards, meant compiling at least some personal facts along with the musical. So, three questions went to the conductors’ handlers. How tall is he? Where does he live (part of town)? What’s his favorite sports team?

This proved awkward, however, especially on one side, and hitherto-cordial staffers turned as cool as, well, trademark attorneys. Vasily’s people cooperated with partial answers. Kirill’s, deep inside Bavarian State Opera, stonewalled: “Mr. Petrenko generally does not wish to answer any personal questions.”

Read on here.

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Comments

  • Osilienko says:

    Where is Oslo?

  • sdg says:

    “Mr. Petrenko generally does not wish to answer any personal questions.”

    Especially stupid ones.

  • Theodore McGuiver says:

    KP is extremely private. He did, however, buy a Bayern Munich season ticket a few years ago for an astronomical sum and then hardly ever got to a match.

  • Tobi says:

    Thank God for Kirill Petrenko. Save us for this tyranny of intimacy.

  • Milka says:

    Both preside over a dead art form and milk it for all it’s worth .
    How they must chuckle privately over the western audience that
    buys into this nonsense of glorifying time keepers ,Powell being an example.

  • Bela Dekany says:

    ==Could the editor please exclude this troll permanently?

    PLEASE !

  • Novagerio says:

    Like comparing Roger Moore with Gary Moore…

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