The director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and the Bolshoi in Moscow has been out in the far east of Russia, inspecting progress on a museum and theatre complex he’s constructing in Vladivostok.
Gergiev, 72, doesn’t get out much these days – at least, not outside Russia and China – so it must have made a nice change of scenery.
His recent thwarted efforts to land a gig in Italy suggest he is feeling quite constricted.
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Stripped back drama & strong musical values: Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos from Glyndebourne Opera at the BBC Proms")
