Valery Gergiev conducts 2 operas and Verdi’s Requiem on same day
NewsSuch is the shortage of qualified conductors at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, it appears that the music director has taken over most of the vacant slots. The highlighted schedule shows him conducting three times in a day this past Sunday.
Not two operas but the same opera twice. Big difference.
At least– and thank goodness– Gergiev is not conducting Murych the Cat.
I’d watch him conduct Murych the Cat…lol
Just watched it with my(russian)godchild,age 4..We both liked it(i am a cat dad).It´s with piano only,however.No orchestra.
Actually, it’s not the shortage of conductors at Mariinsky Theater, it’s just Gergiev’s plain greed! He’s trying to make up for money he lost due to the worldwide ban.
He owns real estate and land worth 150 million euros. Rest assured that he won‘t need a single penny to survive for the rest of his life.
And none of that wealth means he is not greedy. More likely evidence that he is.
As we know from this film
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/nawalnyj-recherche-ueber-valery-gergiev-dirigent-von-putins-krieg-17967905.html
I would like to see him conducting HIMSELF with dignity and self-respect, instead of gussying up to Putin.
That is all well and good to say in comfort, but perhaps he is not keen to be flying out of a thirtieth floor window.
What else does he have to do?
I’d love to attend them all.
Why do they bother advertising in English?
Just can’t stop yourself from saying something nasty about Russia every single day? What is it to you, who is conducting what in “cancelled’ culture?Call yourself civilised?
Everyone with the slightest knowledge of the “System Gergiev” at the Mariinsky Theatre should know that Gergiev claims the “ius primae noctis” for himself. While one of his assistants prepares the production, he takes over for the first night(s).
In the case of “Love for the 3 Oranges” Gergiev had (if I am not mistaken) conducted ALL performances of the previous semi-scenic production in the Concert Hall.
Therefore it should not be surprising, that he conducted the two first nights of the new production in the Historical Mariinsky.
The Verdi Requiem in the evening with a fabulous cast was “in memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky – what would you have said, when he had left this performance to an assistant conductor?
2 performances of Love For 3 Oranges in 1 day. Big deal. It’s a piece of fluff. Gergiev doesn’t even rehearse. I hope he says in Russia and goes down with Putin.
Not a shortage of qualified conductors. Just a shortage of artists who haven’t been ousted or elbowed aside by Gergiev or not-so-subtly forced out by the special military extermination. Gergiev has been trying to turn the opera and ballet company into a pseudo symphony orchestra and the historic theatre into a copy of Carnegie Hall or Barbican Hall for years. Now that international musicians won’t come because innocent civilians are being slaughtered by his buddy, he’s bored so he’s monopolising the podium. Besides, nowhere else wants him.
Between the lines they are telling the western world that Verdi’s Requiem is a showpiece worth no more than that piece of fluff by Prokofiev.
He did it even more , sometimes 2 different operas + one concert + rehearsal with the national youth orchestra. In the last few months sometimes one or 2 operas every 2 days . Only he ist able to do it . you like or don’t.