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The Director-General also met with Maestro Valery Gergiev, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Director of the Mariinsky Theatre and Symphonic Orchestra.
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The season opens Sept. 23 with conductor Valery Gergiev leading "Eugene Onegin, " in a Deborah Warner production that opened at the English National Opera in November 2011.
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The world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.
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Presently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and The World Orchestra of Peace, Valery Gergiev is also founder and Artistic Director of the Stars of the White Nights Festival and New Horizons Festival in St.
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Valery Gergiev was the "obvious" choice.
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In 2016, she is scheduled to sing Elsa in "Lohengrin" in Dresden under the baton of Christian Thielemann, whose "demonic energy" she likens to that of Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor who has played paterfamilias to a generation of singers from the former Soviet Union, including Ms. Netrebko.
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