General Information
- Last name:Gergiev
- First name:Valery
- Birthdate:02/05/1953
- Nationality:Russian federation
- Professions:Conductor
- Works count:32
Biography
Valery Gergiev’s inspired leadership as Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1988 has taken Mariinsky ensembles to 45 countries (presenting the best of Russian opera and ballets as well as the complete Shostakovich and Prokofiev symphonies and Wagner’s Ring cycle) and has brought universal acclaim to this legendary institution, now in its 226th season.
In November 2006, the new and superb Mariinsky Concert Hall opened, in 2009 the Mariinsky Label was launched and in 2011 the new Mariinsky Opera House is scheduled to open. The Mariinsky Label releases in the first year include Shostakovich “The Nose” and Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15, a Tchaikovsky disc of short pieces, Shchedrin “The Enchanted Wanderer”, and Rachmaninoff Piano Concerti No. 3 and “Paganini Variations.” The label’s first two recordings received five Grammy Nominations including Best Opera Recording (The Nose), Best Classical Album (The Nose), Best Orchestral Performance (Symphonies 1 & 15) as well as nominations for engineering and producer.
Presently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev is also founder and Artistic Director of the Stars of the White Nights Festival and New Horizons Festival in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Gergiev Rotterdam Festival, the Mikkeli International Festival, and the Red Sea Festival in Eilat, Israel.
Valery Gergiev succeeded Sir Georg Solti as conductor of the World Orchestra for Peace in 1998. Solti himself had recognized Gergiev as his natural successor when they met two years before Solti died. Solti sensed that Gergiev was “...a man of the theatre,” and likened their meeting to the occasion when Solti met Bruno Walter, who had encouraged him to take the position at Covent Garden. Feeling the need for a new, young, dynamic opera conductor, Solti wrote “… I welcome the arrival of Valery Gergiev…”
Born in Moscow, Valery Gergiev studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. At age 24 he was the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Conductors’ Competition in Berlin and made his Mariinsky Opera debut one year later in 1978 conducting Prokofiev’s War and Peace. In 2003 he led St Petersburg’s 300th anniversary celebrations, and opened the Carnegie Hall season with the Mariinsky Orchestra, the first Russian conductor to do so since Tchaikovsky conducted the hall’s inaugural concert in 1891.
He was the subject of Carnegie Hall’s 2007-08 Perspectives: Valery Gergiev, in which he gave concerts with the Mariinsky, Vienna Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera orchestras and conducted productions of Prokofiev’s War and Peace and The Gambler at the Metropolitan Opera.
Highlights of the 2008-09 season included a Prokofiev cycle at Lincoln Center in New York: staged works (Mariinsky Orchestra) and the complete symphonies (LSO), a cycle of Prokofiev symphonies and concertos with the LSO in Paris and Tokyo, and the Mariinsky Theatre’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” at Royal Covent Garden, London.
In the 2009-10 season Maestro Gergiev conducts Berlioz Les Troyens in St. Petersburg, Valencia, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He also conducts the New York Philharmonic in a three-week Stravinsky Festival, presents a Mariinsky Shostakovich Cycle in Vienna, leads works of Henri Dutilleux with the London Symphony and conducts Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the 2010-11 season he offers a Mahler Cycle in London, New York, Paris and Japan.
Maestro Gergiev is the recipient of a Grammy Award, the Dmitri Shostakovich Award, Golden Mask Award, People’s Artist of Russia Award, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, Netherlands’s Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, Valencia’s Silver Medal, the Herbert von Karajan prize and France’s Royal Order of the Legion of Honor.
Although now recording for the Mariinsky and LSO Live Labels, he has recorded extensively for Decca (Universal Classics), and appears on the Philips and Deutsche Grammophon labels. His vast discography includes many Russian operas, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky Symphonies among many others.
His Mahler Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, 8 are released on LSO Live, the first releases of a complete Mahler cycle with the LSO. Future LSO Live recordings will include Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet complete.
A Dog's heart
A kékszakállú herceg vára (Le Château de Barbe-Bleue)
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
Œdipus Rex
La Pucelle d'Orléans (Orleanskaya deva)
Requiem (Berlioz)
the 23 of February, 2022
Conductor
La Dame de pique (Пиковая дама / Pikovaïa dama)
Milano
Teatro alla Scala.
the 21 of January, 2022
the 23 of January, 2022
the 27 of January, 2022
the 30 of January, 2022
Conductor
La Dame de pique (Пиковая дама / Pikovaïa dama)
Wien
Wiener Staatsoper.
the 21 of September, 2021
Conductor
Œdipus Rex
Bucarest
George Enescu Festival...
the 20 of September, 2021
Conductor
Lady Macbeth de Mzensk
Bucarest
George Enescu Festival...
the 27 of August, 2021
Conductor
Requiem (Berlioz)
La Côte-Saint-André
Festival Berlioz (Côte...
the 26 of August, 2021
Conductor
La Damnation de Faust
La Côte-Saint-André
Festival Berlioz (Côte...
the 22 of July, 2021
the 23 of July, 2021
Conductor
Tosca
Baden Baden
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
the 20 of July, 2021
Conductor
La Fanciulla del West
Vevey
Verbier Festival.
the 30 of June, 2021
the 03 of July, 2021
Conductor
Das Rheingold
Münich
Bayerische Staatsoper ...
the 28 of May, 2021
the 29 of May, 2021
the 12 of June, 2021
Conductor
La Pucelle d'Orléans (Orleanskaya deva)
Saint Petersbourg
Mariinsky II
the 02 of March, 2020
the 06 of March, 2020
the 10 of March, 2020
the 14 of March, 2020
the 18 of March, 2020
the 21 of March, 2020
Conductor
Der Fliegende Holländer
New York
The Metropolitan Opera.
the 09 of January, 2020
the 12 of January, 2020
the 16 of January, 2020
the 19 of January, 2020
Conductor
Lohengrin
Wien
Wiener Staatsoper.
the 19 of December, 2019
the 20 of December, 2019
Conductor
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
Paris
Philharmonie de Paris.
the 21 of September, 2019
Conductor
Iolanta
Paris
Philharmonie de Paris.
the 15 of August, 2019
the 18 of August, 2019
the 20 of August, 2019
the 24 of August, 2019
the 27 of August, 2019
the 29 of August, 2019
Conductor
Simon Boccanegra
Salzburg
Grosses Festspielhaus
the 25 of July, 2019
the 28 of July, 2019
the 13 of August, 2019
the 17 of August, 2019
the 21 of August, 2019
the 25 of August, 2019
Conductor
Tannhäuser
Bayreuth
Bayreuther Festspielhaus
the 22 of July, 2019
Conductor
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Vevey
Verbier Festival.
the 18 of April, 2019
the 21 of April, 2019
the 24 of April, 2019
Conductor
Parsifal
Wien
Wiener Staatsoper.
the 27 of February, 2019
the 03 of March, 2019
the 06 of March, 2019
the 13 of March, 2019
the 19 of March, 2019
the 24 of March, 2019
the 29 of March, 2019
Conductor
La Khovanchtchina (Хованщина)
Milano
Teatro alla Scala.
the 22 of September, 2018
Conductor
Siegfried
Paris
Philharmonie de Paris.
the 26 of July, 2018
Conductor
Adriana Lecouvreur
Vevey
Verbier Festival.
the 20 of July, 2018
the 23 of July, 2018
Conductor
Adriana Lecouvreur
Baden Baden
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
the 18 of May, 2018
Conductor
Der Fliegende Holländer
Baden Baden
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
the 15 of August, 2016
Conductor
Das Rheingold
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Internationa...
the 07 of July, 2016
the 10 of July, 2016
Conductor
Die Walküre
Baden Baden
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
the 26 of January, 2015
the 29 of January, 2015
the 03 of February, 2015
the 07 of February, 2015
the 10 of February, 2015
the 14 of February, 2015
Conductor
Iolanta
New York
The Metropolitan Opera.
the 26 of January, 2015
the 29 of January, 2015
the 03 of February, 2015
the 07 of February, 2015
the 10 of February, 2015
the 14 of February, 2015
Conductor
A kékszakállú herceg vára (Le Château de Barbe-...
New York
The Metropolitan Opera.
the 23 of September, 2013
the 26 of September, 2013
the 01 of October, 2013
the 05 of October, 2013
the 09 of October, 2013
the 12 of October, 2013
Conductor
Eugène Onéguine
New York
The Metropolitan Opera.
the 04 of May, 2013
Conductor
Nabucco
St Petersburg
Mariinsky Theatre
the 28 of March, 2013
the 02 of April, 2013
the 04 of April, 2013
the 07 of April, 2013
the 09 of April, 2013
the 13 of April, 2013
the 16 of April, 2013
the 18 of April, 2013
the 21 of April, 2013
Conductor
Macbeth.
Milano
Teatro alla Scala.
the 13 of March, 2013
the 13 of March, 2013
the 16 of March, 2013
the 16 of March, 2013
the 21 of March, 2013
the 21 of March, 2013
the 27 of March, 2013
the 27 of March, 2013
the 03 of April, 2013
the 03 of April, 2013
Conductor
A Dog's heart
Milano
Teatro alla Scala.
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