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...good thing Valery Gergiev is a sturdy optimist. Gergiev is artistic director and principal conductor of St. Petersburg's Kirov Opera. His is the finest company in Russia, and it is now on its first ever U.S. visit, playing New York City's Metropolitan Opera House...
...conductor of great skill and dark, sexy good looks, Gergiev, 39, could be getting rich on the international concert and opera circuit. But, he says, , "that's not what it's about." What matters to him is the Kirov, whose past he reveres and in whose future he has militant confidence. "It will go on naturally and beautifully as it has for 200 years. It's full of energy -- lots of vitamins...
Ordinarily, the immediate postmortem period is the time when a composer's music and his reputation go underground with him. Not Messiaen's. Consider, for example, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of the sprawling Turangalila- Symphonie, in a stunning performance by conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Bastille Opera Orchestra. Written in 1948, this vast, hermetic work is a powerful introduction to Messiaen's intricate, private world of symbol and allusion, both sacred and profane...
SHORT TAKES Nureyev debuts as a conductor...
...Guillem) enchanting. But the roiling applause at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House went mainly to the man who was making his U.S. debut in the orchestra pit, RUDOLF NUREYEV. Now 54, the century's most celebrated male dancer has got a leg up on a new career as a conductor. Admirers who feared that he could not achieve so radical a transition without embarrassment may rest easy. Nureyev, who started conducting both ballet and stage performances with considerable success in Europe last year, demonstrated that he has all the right musical moves...