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New York’s Carnegie Hall | Yannick Nézet-Seguin replaces a pro-Putin conductor

(New York) The famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, known to be close to Vladimir Putin, was excluded at the last minute from a series of performances this weekend at Carnegie Hall because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the prestigious New York hall announced on Thursday.

Posted at 6:22 p.m.



PHOTO DMITRY LOVETSKY, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS

Valery Gergiev

On Thursday, the prestigious Scala in Milan has already asked the globetrotting conductor to plead publicly for a “peaceful solution” to the conflict, threatening to part ways with him for two upcoming performances of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, scheduled between March 5 and 13.

Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra also specify that pianist Denis Matsuev, also a supporter of Vladimir Putin, will be absent on Friday when he was supposed to perform.

Director General of the prestigious Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, 68, is one of the most sought-after conductors in the world.

His closeness to Putin, whom he has known since 1992, and his loyalty to the Russian president on the annexation of Crimea, as well as his participation in concerts in bombarded South Ossetia and in Palmyra alongside the Syrian army, have been the subject of much controversy over the past decade.

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