FILE - Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor, Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, attends a meeting of the board of trustees of Bolshoi and ...

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Beginning with its title—You Cannot Start Without Me—Allan Miller’s portrait of Russian Maestro Valery Gergiev examines both the basic and abstract purposes that conductors serve, using Gergiev as a ...

A planned classical music concert in Italy, featuring a Russian conductor known to be an old friend and vocal supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is sparking furor after the wife of late ...

Valery Gergiev will conduct the Giuseppe Verdi Philharmonic Orchestra of Salerno in the Italian city of Caserta - Alexei Druzhinin/Tass/Getty Images A Russian conductor and friend of Vladimir Putin is ...

BERLIN (AP) — Valery Gergiev has been fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic because of his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and for not rejecting the invasion of Ukraine, the ...

The city of Munich said Tuesday it has fired Valery Gergiev as the chief conductor of the city’s philharmonic orchestra because of his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mayor Dieter Reiter ...

The Russian maestro, who heads the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, will also control the Bolshoi in Moscow, replacing Vladimir Urin, who spoke out against the Ukraine war. By Javier C. Hernández ...

The brutal sacking of world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev by the Munich Philharmonic on March 1 is the high point of an unprecedented smear campaign against all things Russian. Governments, media, ...