Kirill Petrenko drops out of Berlin Ukraine fundraiser
NewsToday’s televised solidarity concert for Ukraine at Bellevue Palace will be conducted by Nodoka Okisawa, Kirill Petrenko assistant (pictured), as the chief conductor has fallen sick.
The concert will open and close with works by the refugee Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, who will be present.
Evgeny Kissin will perform a polonaise by Chopin and, together with Berlin Philharmonic members, two movements from a piano trio by Dmitri Shostakovich. The Russian baritone Rodion Pogossov will sing the aria of Prince Yeletzki from Peter Tchaikovsky’s opera Queen of Spades.
Petrenko seems to have health issues.
Let us wish him well.
You mean the car won’t start!?
Nice. Real nice.
Well, the engine begins to misfire…
I hope it’s not back trouble again. If it is, he really needs to find a way to relax his muscles and not be hypertense the whole time.
The title seems to be – perhaps unintentionally – quite clickbait-y and misleading, I should say, considering the sensitive subject of Russian artists and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Kiriil Petrenko has not been vague about his opinion on the Russian invasion, and has condemned it from the start.
In my humble opinion, given the common contemporary practice of reading only article titles, if the writer intends to be a reliable source, this particular title should clarify, in no uncertain terms, that the withdrawal is over health problems.