The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin.
Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey Roldugin. Gergiev’s current Mariinsky star Olga Maslova will sing, along with Domingo protege Dmitry Korchak. The Italian Fabio Mastrangelo will conduct.
Frey proclaims: ‘Guests of the Petrovsky Opera Ball will participate in and witness a landmark event – the largest charity project to collect donations for the development of culture and humanitarian support for residents of new regions of Russia. As part of the project, the Most Iskusstv (Bridge of Arts) Foundation is establishing personal scholarships named after P.I. Tchaikovsky for the best students of cultural and creative specialties in new regions of Russia. Every concerned citizen or organization can already make donations, the form of which can be very different – a lot is needed for the development of Russian culture.’
Russia’s ‘new regions’ are a euphemism for areas of Ukraine that have been conquered in Putin’s illegal invasion.
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