abstract:Valery Abisalovich Gergiev PAR (, /Gergiti Abisali Furt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St.
The season opens Sept. 23 with conductor ValeryGergiev leading "Eugene Onegin, " in a Deborah Warner production that opened at the English National Opera in November 2011.
The world-renowned conductor ValeryGergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.