Valery Gergiev's July concert marks his first Western performance since 2022 ban, sparking protests from Nobel laureates and EU officials.

The July 27 event at the Royal Palace of Caserta has provoked outrage, with Ukrainian groups warning that hosting Putin’s favorite maestro desecrates cultural heritage and insults war victims.

When the name of Valery Gergiev popped up on a bill for Italy’s Un’Estate da Re festival, it was not simply another summer concert promotion it was an incendiary spark thrown onto the dry wood of ...

A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests ...

A concert in Italy by a top Russian conductor shunned in the West since the invasion of Ukraine could send the wrong message, ...

Italy's culture minister joined the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday in condemning an invitation ...

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Italian authorities Tuesday to cancel a concert by Russian ...

The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Italy to cancel a concert by a Russian conductor who has ...

Russian opposition activists have also condemned the director's sudden return. The Anti-Corruption Foundation, of the late ...

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gergiev, a world-famous conductor who has been the director of the Mariinsky Theatre for 35 years, has been a strong supporter of Putin and his policies.

Valery Gergiev, a star-Russian conductor and supporter of Vladimir Putin, has been appointed as the general director of Russia's Bolshoi theatre. Gergiev, who also heads the Mariinsky theatre in ...