Valery Gergiev was fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic for supporting Putin and not rejecting the invasion of Ukraine, officials said.
after Gergiev didn’t respond to Reiter’s demand that the 68-year-old Russian conductor change course.“I had expected him to rethink and revise his very positive assessment of the Russian leader,” Reiter said. “After this didn’t occur, the only option is the immediate severance of ties.
The announcement ends a close cooperation between the Rotterdam orchestra and Gergiev dating back to 1988 and also halts a Dutch festival that bears his name.The Verbier Festival in Switzerland said Tuesday that Gergiev resigned as music director at its request. Gergiev, a friend and supporter of Putin, is the music director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, and its White Nights Festival. He was already dropped by the Edinburgh International Festival and from the Vienna Philharmonic’s five-concert U.S.
“As I have said, I am opposed to this senseless war of aggression and I am calling on Russia to end this war right now, to save all of us,” she said in a statement. “We need peace right now.”In a weekend Instagram post, Netrebko had voiced her opposition to the war but also said that “forcing artists, or any public figure to voice their political opinions in public and to denounce their homeland is not right. This should be a free choice.” She said that she is “not a political person.
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