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.
