Gergiev, Valery
Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees.
Opera, once divvied into local companies of singers mostly from the same country, blossomed with the advent of air travel into a fully international art form. French, German and Italian opera houses began to host artists from around the world. That’s become easy to take for granted. But in the wake of the Russian invasion […]
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Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably.
In Canada, an acclaimed 20-year-old Russian pianist’s concert was canceled amid concerns about his silence on the invasion of Ukraine. The music director of an orchestra in Toulouse, France — who is also the chief conductor at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow — was instructed to clarify his position on the war before his next […]
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Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On
A week ago, the Vienna Philharmonic’s three-night stop at Carnegie Hall, which began Friday, was remarkable mostly for signifying a major step in the slow return of international orchestras to New York. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. The Viennese had been set to be conducted by Valery Gergiev, a frequent magnet for protests at Carnegie Hall […]
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