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Valery Gergiev
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Russian conductor and opera company director
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Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Valery Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. 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.
Known for
- Lexo — Self2025
- Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance — Self (archive footage)2022
- Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making — Self2020
- Summer Night Concert: 2020 — Self - Dirigent2020
- Verbier Festival – The 25th Anniversary Concert — Conductor2019
- Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2018 — Dirigent2018
- Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances — Conductor2018
- Summer Night Concert: 2018 - Vienna Philharmonic — Conductor2018
- Music and Power — Self2018
- BBC Proms 2016: Ravel, M. / Strauss, R. / Berlioz, H. (Abduraimov, Munich Philharmonic, Gergiev) — Conductor2018
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1953
Discography
- L'ame de la russie1997
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival1997
- Boris Godounov1998
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival1998
- White Nights: Valery Gergiev's Russia2001
- World Orchestra for Peace - The First Ten Years 1995-20052005
- The Art of Valery Gergiev: Maestro2006
- Essential Gergiev2011
- Greatest Russian Classical Music2013
- Sommernachtskonzert 2018 / Summer Night Concert 20182018
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- 20,537
- Total plays
- 181,835
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Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери; Russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев) (born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. Valery Gergiev is the artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Valery+Gergiev">Read
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valery
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Occupation
- music director
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Employer
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Ilya Musin
- Genre
- symphonic music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- Valery Gergiev David Shankbone 2010.jpg
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- Valery Gergiev
- date of birth
- 1953-05-02
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
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- 12318
- affiliation string
- Mariinsky Theatre
- affiliation
- Mariinsky Theatre
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- Anna Netrebko
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Encyclopedic overview
Gergiev at the 2010 Time 100 Gala Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Russian: Валерий Абисалович Гергиев, IPA: [vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ɐbʲɪˈsaləvʲɪdʑ ˈɡʲerɡʲɪjɪf]; Iron Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, romanized: Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. He was formerly chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Munich Philharmonic.
Early life
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