Valery Gergiev

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Birthday
May 02, 1953 (72 years old)

Valery Gergiev

Known For

Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance
0h 54m
Movie 2022

Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance

After twenty years in power, Vladimir Putin continues to implement his geopolitical strategy with Russia’s comeback on the big stage of world politics. He already announced his ambitions in 2007 – and still, it seems like the western governments were hit completely unprepared. What is behind this repeat of the Cold War?

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2018
Movie 2018

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2018

Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances
Movie 2018

Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances

This box set brings together Valery Gergiev’s acclaimed cycle of the complete Rachmaninoff symphonies, which were recorded with the Orchestra across 2008 to 2015. These masterful accounts of the composer’s complete symphonies are accompanied by his 1940 composition Symphonic Dances, while two symphonic poems by Mily Balakirev echo the luxurious textures present throughout Rachmaninoff’s music. Release date: 20 April 2018 LSO0816 | 822231181620 3 SACD Hybrid + 1 Pure Audio Blu-ray | Digibox Booklet notes in English, French and German 2.0 stereo | multi-channel 5.1 Total playing time: 3h 35m Producer: James Mallinson Engineering: Classic Sound Ltd Recorded live at the Barbican Hall, London September 2008 - February 2015

BBC Proms 2016:  Ravel, M. / Strauss, R. / Berlioz, H. (Abduraimov, Munich Philharmonic, Gergiev)
Movie 2018

BBC Proms 2016: Ravel, M. / Strauss, R. / Berlioz, H. (Abduraimov, Munich Philharmonic, Gergiev)

Music and Power
0h 56m
Movie 2018

Music and Power

Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting and very current themes about the links between music and politics.

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2017
Movie 2017

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2017

After You're Gone
2h 0m
Movie 2016

After You're Gone

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
3h 6m
Movie 2015

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2h 12m
Movie 2013

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

A spectacular special event edition of Swan Lake in 3-D starring Ekaterina Kondaurova and Natalia Vodianova, model, actress, and storyteller, was recorded and broadcast live from the historic Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Russia, the city where the world's most loved ballet was created. This was a 3-D live screening celebrating two hundred seventy-five years since Russian ballet started in the exquisite splendor of the Winter Palace.

All the Russias: A Musical Journey
TV Show 2002

All the Russias: A Musical Journey

The entire sweep of Russian musical history is explored in this four-part series, beginning with its origins in ancient chants and folk music, stretching through to radical contemporary composers like Schnittke and Gubaidulina. Artistic director of the Kirov, Valery Gergiev, presents excerpts from the orchestral and vocal legacy of composers such as Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Biography

Valery Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.

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