Breaking: Bashmet is in hospital with Covid-19
mainThe Russian viola virtuoso and conductor Yuri Bashmet has pulled out of a national tour with a youth orchestra and been taken to hospital with Covid.
Whether others around him were infected has not been disclosed.
Bashmet, 67, is on the verge of the high-risk group.
We wish him better.
He is the second Russian musical star to be hospitalised with Covid, after Anna Netrebko.
According to the Mayo Clinic age 67 is a high risk group:
“In the U.S., about 80% of deaths from the disease have been in people age 65 and older. ”
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-who-is-at-risk/art-20483301
Guess he didn’t get Putin’s vaccine in time.
Ildar Abdrazakov’s covid was announced before netrebko, unless you don’t consider him a “Russian musical star”
He’s great. I consider him to be a star.
Pretty remarkable statistics for a country that declared Covid-19 as God’s punishment for Russia’s enemies…
Terrible news. Yuri Bashmet has made huge contributions to music and the viola. May he make a speedy and full recovery.
Absolutely…so many invaluable artists. I am so worried Martha will catch something too as she is performing a bit more these days…
In the viola world he is a Titanic figure. As a musician he partnered with the most respected instrumentalist, and many composers write for him…hope he can recover soon and well.
He has for long time underlined health problems.
Well, he smokes like a chimney and drinks like a fish.