Saturday, March 14, 2009

Tsar Valery


Valery Gergiev, maestro of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, ally of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and master of post-Soviet cultural crosscurrents, profiled by Arthur Lubow in The New York Times Magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/magazine/15gergiev-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=music