Conductor Valery Gergiev glad to be part of the EIF
Which is just as well, because we’re still talking just minutes before he’s due in front of the orchestra. It does nothing to belie the reputation of a jet setting workaholic that he’s gained over the last couple of decades, during which time he’s led the Rotterdam Philharmonic, injected vital new life into St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Opera, brought a welcome transparency to Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition, and taken the helm at the London Symphony Orchestra – among numerous other projects.
One project is his recent appointment as the Edinburgh International Festival’s honorary president – a responsibility he’s clearly taken to heart with a run of Prokofiev’s ballet Cinderella from his Mariinsky forces alongside a residency with the LSO at the festival this year.
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