Exclusive: Gergiev is injured
NewsVladimir Putin’s director of music was missing without explanation from a high-profile Red Square concert on May 24.
Three days later Gergiev, 70, turned up to conduct the opening of the Stars of the White Nights music festival at the Mariinsky Theatre. He used crutches to get him on stage and then conducted sitting down.
There has been no mention of his injury in Russian media.
Slippedisc has received footage that an audience member shot of him arriving to conduct here and here.
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