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Audience wait for an hour while Gergiev takes a comfort break

Audience wait for an hour while Gergiev takes a comfort break

The Russian premiere of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Salambo was suspended for an hour while its conductor Valery Gergiev popped out to attend to other duties across town.

Inexplicable,and unprofessional.

Here’s what the Telegram channel reports:

Valery Gergiev left one of the premiere performances at the Bolshoi Theater to conduct a performance of a song based on the poems of Maria Zakharova. According to the audience, the intermission lasted almost an hour due to the maestro’s absence.

The Telegram channel “Passion for Theaters” wrote about the prolonged break in the performance of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera “Salambo”, which had never been staged in Russia before. According to the author of the message, the audience was not warned that the intermission would last longer than usual.

While theatergoers at the Bolshoi were waiting for the performance to continue, Gergiev managed to go to the VTB Arena. There, he led the orchestra in performing the patriotic song “Return the Memory” based on the poems of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In addition, the conductor managed to receive the Golden Gramophone award and present a certificate for 1 million rubles to the family of a deceased member of the “SVO” from Ossetia.

Валерий Гергиев отлучился с одного из премьерных спектаклей в Большом театре, чтобы дирижировать исполнением песни на стихи Марии Захаровой. По словам зрителей, из-за отсутствия маэстро антракт длился почти час.

О затянувшемся перерыве в исполнении ранее не ставившейся в России оперы Модеста Мусоргского «Саламбо» написал телеграм-канал «Страсти по театрам». По словам автора сообщения, публику не сочли нужным предупредить о том, что антракт продлится дольше обычного.

Пока театралы в Большом ждали продолжения спектакля, Гергиев успел съездить в «ВТБ Арену». Там он выступил во главе оркестра, исполнившего патриотическую песню «Верните память» на стихи официального представителя МИД России. Кроме того, дирижёр успел получить награду «Золотой Граммофон» и вручить сертификат на 1 миллион рублей семье погибшего участника «СВО» из Осетии.

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