Russia replaces Vasily Petrenko

Russia replaces Vasily Petrenko

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

August 29, 2024

Two and a half years since the conductor Vasily Petrenko left Russia over the Putin invasion of Ukraine, the authorities have finally replaced him at the head of the Svetlanov symphony Orchestra.

The new baton is Филипп Чижевский, Philip Chizhevsky, 39, virtually unknown outside Russia and going nowhere for a while.

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