Valery Gergiev conducts all day long on Mariinsky FM

On the day, it will be possible to listen to recordings of performances made over the years, among them the operas Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1980), Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka (1996) and Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet featuring Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role (2011) and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with Daniil Trifonov at the Tchaikovsky Competition. The maestro’s colleagues and friends Maria Guleghina, Plácido Domingo, Diana Vishneva and Vasily Barkhatov will congratulate Valery Gergiev on his birthday.
For the programme please go to: http://mariinsky.fm.

On the media broadcast site http://mariinsky.tv/n there will be video greetings for the maestro from friends, colleagues and fans:
 • Oleg Basilashvili, People’s Artist of Russia
 • Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 • Yuri Temirkanov, People’s Artist of Russia and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Honoured Ensemble of Russia
 • Vladimir Gusev, Director of the State Russian Museum
 • Sergei Roldugin, People’s Artist of Russia and Artistic Director of the St Petersburg House of Music
 • Alexei Baindurashvili, Professor and Director of the Turner Scientific and Research Institute for Children’s Orthopaedics
 • Irina Nikitina, President of the Musical Olympus foundation
 • Mikhail Gantvarg, People’s Artist of Russia and Rector of the St Petersburg Conservatoire
 • Yevgeny Shlyakhto, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Science and Director of the Almazov Federal Heart, Blood and Endocrinology Centre
 • Nikolai Burov, People’s Artist of Russia and Director of the St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum and Monument.