Star conductor becomes latest Kremlin supporter to lead a major Russian cultural institution
Valery Gergiev, the star Russian conductor and prominent supporter of Vladimir Putin, has been installed as general director of Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre, in the latest appointment of a Kremlin loyalist to a leading cultural institution.
The appointment means that Gergiev, who also heads the rival Mariinsky theatre in St Petersburg, will now have artistic control over the two crown jewels of the Russian ballet and opera.
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