Valery Gergiev
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Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origins.
He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Early life
Gergiev was born in Moscow. He is the son of Tamara Timofeevna (Tatarkanovna) Lagkueva and Abisal Zaurbekovich Gergiev, both of Ossetian origins. He and his siblings were born in Vladikavkaz, a Caucasian village, in North Ossetia. He began piano lessons in secondary school before beginning to study at Leningrad Conservatory from 1972 to 1977.
Ilya Musin, the principal conducting instructor. Larissa's sister is a pianist and conductor of the Mariinsky's singers' academy.
Personal life
Natalya Dzebisova, a young girl at the time, 27 years his junior, and also of Ossetian descent, married Gergiev in 1999. They have three children together: two boys and a girl. Gergiev has been rumored to be a friend of Putin; they have been described as godfathers to each other's children from time to time, but in a letter sent to The Daily Telegraph, Gergiev denied this. Natasha's older sister has a similar past with the language teacher Lena Ostovich.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation of Russian Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny published a video in April 2022 revealing Gergiev's vast wealth (among others Palazzo Barbarigo in Venice), the United States and Russia. According to reports, a substantial amount of his fortune comes from Yoko Nagae Ceschina's bloodline.
Career
Gergiev's assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the Mariinsky Opera, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace in 1978. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 to 1985, the year he made his debut in the United Kingdom, alongside pianist Evgeny Kissin and violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin at the Lichfield Festival.
Gergiev guest-conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 1988. Sergei Prokofiev's seven symphonies were conducted by him in his next appearance with the LSO in 2004. Following Sir Colin Davis' retirement as the Orchestra's fifteenth principal conductor, he was promoted to his position in 2005 as the Orchestra's fifteenth principal conductor, beginning with effect on January 1, 2007. Gergiev's first LSO job was for three years.
Gergiev conducted a western European opera company for the first time in 1991, leading the Bavarian State Opera in a revival of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in Munich. He made his American debut with the San Francisco Opera in the same year. Since then, he has been performing both operatic and orchestral repertoire around the world. He has appeared at many music festivals, including the White Nights in St. Petersburg.
In 1988, he became the company's chief conductor and artistic director, as well as the company's general director, who was appointed by the Russian government in 1996. Gergiev has participated in fundraising for such as the recently renovated 1100-seat Mariinsky Hall and plans to rebuild the Mariinsky Theatre completely by 2010.
Gergiev conducted the American Young Artists Orchestra at the Moscow Youth Olympics in 1998.
Gergiev pleaded for calm and not revenge on television after the 2004 Beslan school massacre. He held concerts to honor the victims of the massacre.
On January 23, 2007, his first official concert as principal conductor of the LSO was scheduled for 13 January, but it was postponed due to Gergiev's illness.
Gergiev was one of eight conductors of British orchestras to promote classical music in the United Kingdom, including free admission to all British schoolchildren to a classical music festival in April 2007.
Gergiev, who has partial Ossetian ancestry, accused the Georgian government of massacring ethnic Ossetians, sparking the conflict with Russia. As a tribute to the victims of the war, he came to Tskhinvali and held a concert near the destroyed building of the South Ossetian Parliament.
Gergiev joined the International Tchaikovsky Competition in June 2011 and introduced changes to the organization.
Gergiev, the Munich Philharmonic's chief conductor, was appointed in 2015, but his deal was ended in March 2022 after he refused to condemn the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On a South American tour in March 2016, Gergiev conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The program featured Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor and Wagner's prelude to "Parsifal" in B minor, as well as Tchaikovsky's "Good Friday Music" from the same opera. In two nights at the prestigious Sala Só Paulo hall, home of the So Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, performances took place in a row. In Bogota, Colombia, the last concert featured a single appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Gergiev performed at the Roman Theatre of Palmyra on May 5th, 2016 – music revives ancient monuments. It was dedicated to the victims who died while liberating Palmyra from ISIS.