Valery Gergiev conducts Mariinsky Orchestra on Beijing stage

STORY: Valery Gergiev conducts Mariinsky Orchestra on Beijing stage DATELINE: March 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of performance 2. SOUNDBITE (English): VALERY GERGIEV, Russian conductor 3. various of performance STORYLINE: The Mariinsky Orchestra, one of the oldest orchestras in Russia, performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing with Valery Gergiev from Monday to Wednesday. Over the three-day performance, the Russian musical ensemble brought three different art shows. It was an important performance for the resumption of music exchanges between the national theaters of China and Russia, after three and a half years of parting. SOUNDBITE (English): VALERY GERGIEV, Russian conductor "I was very honored to come with Mariinsky for the grand opening of NCPA. Not surprisingly, our cultural ties and our cultural exchange will only strengthen and grow. I am personally very happy to come back to see my friends. I have many frie

Man in news: Russian conductor acts as art director of Japan music fest

Man in news: Russian conductor acts as art director of Japan music fest

Russian conductor Valery Gergiev is interviewed in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015, during the Pacific Music Festival. He served as art director for the July 12-Aug. 4 festival, inaugurated by the late music maestro Leonard Bernstein in 1990. Gergiev acted as principal conductor at the festival in 2004 and 2006. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

STEPHANIE HOLZSCHUSTE, HANA TRESTIKOVA

STEPHANIE HOLZSCHUSTE, HANA TRESTIKOVA

The category Czech Crystal, Recordings of Music Concerts was won by the recording of the Summer Night Concert in 2018, shot in the gardens of the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna at the Golden Prague international television festival in Prague, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. Under the baton of Valery Gergiev, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed in it along with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Director Staphanie Holzschuste (left) receives the price from Hana Trestikova. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)