Navalny’s Gergiev investigation is now subtitled in English
News24 hours after first release, the opposition investigation into Valery Gergiev’s life and alleged crimes has been subtitled in English.
Almost one and a half million people have watched it so far.
Now you can, too.
Read about his amazing sinking funds.
The research is from the team of Alexey Navalny, one of the most important political prisoners in Russia. His team is publishing news on Russia on various channels. The links can be found on his website https://navalny.com/
“Read about his amazing sinking funds.”
Not to mention his amazing sinking career. Have fun on your retirement tour to Vladivostok.
I hope some of these funds eventually get clawed back from him and his ilk.
Gergiev should repair to Siberia where he can compose in his favourite key, A Salt Miner.
As Goebbels time if you was jewish, before was Klemperer, Kleiber, now because you are russian, now is Gergiev, Bolshoi Ballet, Alexander Maloofev. Stupid.
Yes, stupid – this sums up your comment so well !
Complete nonsense .Gergiev was active as a friend of Putin
Please provide an English translation?
Besides the ridiculous and awfully dumb statement, E. Kleiber wasn’t Jewish.
But Ruth Goodrich Kleiber (Eric’s wife) had a Jewish step-father!!
Stephen Goodrich, Ruth Kleiber’s step-father, was not Jewish. He was a Congregationalist from the same Goodrich family that produced BF Goodrich, though the two were separated by three or four generations.
The Goodriches were English nobility who came to the US in the late-1600s, initially settling in Maine before some moving to Western New York and then Iowa. Besides BF Goodrich, the Goodrich family produced a sizable number of leaders in various fields.
Carlos Kleiber’s American blood relatives were typical midwestern Protestants. Heinrich Baumgardner was Carlos’s earliest North American forbear on his father’s side. He was born in Zürich in the late-1600s and was Swiss Reformed. When Heinrich arrived in the colonies around 1725, Pennsylvania to be specific, he was absorbed into the large German-Lutheran population of South Central PA near the Maryland border. Today’s York County. Eventually the family expanded to Ohio – then known as the Virginia Territory – before moving on to Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
Over the course of generations the Baumgardners intermarried with families of British extraction. These families, with names like Wheeler and Robie, were mostly Methodists and Presbyterians.
Ruth Kleiber herself was a strong-willed woman and gypsy at heart. These traits eventually landed her in Argentina.
Below is a link to a photo of Carlos’s grandfather, Louis Baumgardner. The resemblance should put to rest the offensive notion that Alban Berg was Carlos’s father.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65487269/louis-irwin-baumgardner
Wtf does that even mean?
I always thought that Yoko Ceshkina’s money was for the Mariinsky theatre as she was a huge supporter of it.
Interesting to see that there is no mention of him in this year’s Mikkeli Festival in Finland.
That’s not true. Mikkeli Music Festival has finished the collaboration with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre. Because the City of Mikkeli has threatened to stop supporting the festival, no single Russian artist is allowed to participate, also those artists who are not connected to Gergiev.
Replacing the Mariinsky Orchestra The Philharmonia Orchestra London will appear in two concerts, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Soloists will be Pekka Kuusisto and Bruce Lou. Though the ticket prices are with 119 € much higher than in Gergiev times, the Kuusisto / Rouvali concert is already now sold out.
Better orchestra. Better conductor.
That’s what I said no sign of him.
Of course you were right. Sorry! I was too quick writing my comment.
Funny, Mikkeli, of all places,
have been kissing Gergiev’s (and his sister’s) ass for now 30 years, while being well aware of what a massive super-oligarch and mobster he was/is…
And now they suddenly turn their backs to all Russian artists? Also those born in the 1990s, who don’t even dare to mention Poo–tin?…
What was it all then about? Prestige? “Laissez-faire cultural politics”?…
I watched it with subtitles yesterday.
Never a good idea to be wealthier than your king. Remember Nikolas Fouquet
what makes you think Putin has less money as Gergiev??!
Always delighted to have never bought a Gergiev recording , although saw him live at the BBc Proms a couple times . Anyone ,,and I mean everyone who is close to Putin is utterly corrupt
This is to say about all barrons or oligarchs however you want to call them in former communist east. They all got rich the same.
Same in Vietnam, I assure you. My friend’s son has just moved permanently to Hanoi with his wife and family (she’s Vietnamese) and enjoying a lavish lifestyle living with in-laws; former General in North Vietnamese army!! Servants, lots of real estate….
Everyone who is close to Downing Str is utterly corrupt.
Public health at the lowest, in many schools the pupils are given their phones in lessons- instead of lessons- to keep them in reasonable order (like prison!)
Schools no longer teach. UK town centres are a perfect backdrop for Ukrainian “president’ infamous messages – towns centres are ruined, unloved and inhibited by an impoverished obese crowds.
The ‘leader’ of this country just squandered millions of public money like it is his own – to save his bacon …
And you all agree and keep going on and on on this war, the war that is NOT yours, the war your corrupt government draggs you into.
If this country will loose its children – what is the future?
Happy royals?
Raped underage girls of Rotherham, Oxford …all over the country. You know everything about Ukraine, but do you care to know what was happening under your nose for decades?
Something that was rather nauseating was the way the presenters who clearly highlighted what an unpleasant hypocritical corrupt character Gergiev is, they continued say what a ‘brilliant musician and maybe even the best in the world “. I mean even before the attack on Ukraine VG has been extremely over rated by so many . A poser
Best in the world!!! I think not.
Agree on this.
VG is Not a brilliant musician, but a pusher with excellent crowd control skills.
Rejected the opportunity to learn from Mravinsky , though had a chance being, technically,
his assistant (was not interested).
I took their comment to be sarcastic, not meant to be a serious appraisal of his abilities. Maybe that’s what they meant?
NAVALNY WITH AN L!
Meanwhile the sinking Matsuev has been granted a festival
https://matsuev.com/en/concerts/
“By their fruits shall ye know them”.
I maintain that one can tell a lot from a person’s approach to music. The first time I heard him conduct Alexander Nevsky, I pegged him as a brute. It was as if Khruschev were conducting with his shoe. After that I never attended any of his performances.
Now 1.9M views on YouTube
Well, he’s always been a super-oligarch, why the surprise?
Years back, it was rumored that Gergiev took a cut from the fees of all the Russian singers he brought to the Met. I now believe it.
There seems to be some interesting revelations and some rather petty
It is not surprising that GERGIEV during a lengthy period working at the Met bought a flat rather than pay extortionate rent in New York
A flat for that price is not among the most expensive in that City
His unusual estate in Italy were obviously bought through the lady he inherited a tidy fortune from
The total of his Italian holdings are comparable to his inheritance
There is no doubt that GERGIEV put the Marinsky on a very prestigious footing worldwide
That took hard work ,talent and commitment
He is one of the most active conductors in the world bringing classical music to many audiences worldwide
I note that he was extremely quiet about the war until commanded by Putin to take a lead in recent days
If GERGIEV had spoken out against Putin he and maybe his family would undoubtedly have been imprisoned or killed
“If GERGIEV had spoken out against Putin he and maybe his family would undoubtedly have been imprisoned or killed”
Unlike the nearly 2,000 civilians in Ukraine to date who had no choice in the matter.