Maestro move: Mariinsky baton heads to Stuttgart
mainThe Russian-American conductor Mikhail Agrest, a staffer at the Mariinsky since 2001, has been appointed music director of Stuttgart Ballet.
He succeeds Jeffrey Tuggle, who has held the post for 35 years.
This will be another string to Misha’s already very fine and diverse bow! He’s a tremendous symphonic and opera conductor already – congratulations!
Can you call a conductor “a staffer at the Mariinsky”, who conducted there for the last time in December 2013?
Already not, but he conducted in our theatre for many years, though…