Breaking: Bolshoi is beheaded
NewsBolshoi director Vladimir Urin told a staff meeting last night that he had completed his final day of work at the theatre. This morning, Vallery Gergiev will be introduced to staff as the new boss.
Some refer to him by Stalin’s title, ‘Vozhd’. Gergiev now holds absolute control of Russia’s two biggest opera houses, with a third subsidiary in Vladivostok and a growing footprint in China.
Gergiev, 70, is still power hungry, still close to Putin. His contract is for five years, or as long as Putin survives.
Urin, 76, stood no chance.
Photo: Laura Luostarinen
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