Ukraine: concert with Gergiev at Macerata Opera – Show canceled

(ANSA) – MACERATA, 03 MAR – The symphonic concert with Valery Gergiev at the head of the Mariinsky Orchestra that was supposed to close the 2022 edition of the Macerata Opera Festival at the Sferisterio on 20 August is off. This was announced by the artistic director Paolo Pinamonti, during the presentation of the 2022 program. “It is evident – said Pinamonti – that in the face of the current dramatic situation and the violent aggression of Russia by Putin of Ukraine, with the suffering of the Ukrainian populations to whom all our solidarity goes, of the soldiers and the dead, this concert is inevitably suspended “. (HANDLE).