Putin Protegé Valery Gergiev is said to conduct in Italy

That was still time! The wall fell, the terms “Glasnost” and “Perestroika” gave hope that the cold war was over and Russia could become an open democracy. Conductor Valery Gergiev, a true expert, was courted in the west like the then President Mikhail Gorbachev. There was a festival with its name in Rotterdam. With his orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, he received a record deal with Multi Universal. A global star, busy on the road, and finally head of the established Munich Philharmonic.