Ossetian, student of Musin, not Gergiev

Today it is officially announced that the new musical director and chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater was found. Hooray. UV. After the position suddenly and at the same time quite expectedly freed from Vasily Sinai, CEO Vladimir Urin announced Dedaline - February 1. Before this period, a new hero was to be discovered, ready to do this hell. And the closer the ICS hour moved, the more Adova seemed the position of musical head of the Bolshoi Theater. Yes, no one, no one will agree to her! Raise these rubble. Follow the daily level of performances. Clean the troupe. Sit on this powder barrel between the Kremlin, the State Duma and the ticket speculators. Connect the incompatible - the world brand and "our everything." The musical world was fun “looking for firefighters, looking for a police” and a joke about the three Yurovsky (Vladimir? No, he won’t go, too busy. Dmitry? Yes, it seems young, he’s not fanned. Papa Mikhail? So he is a Jew!). A few years ago, this was impossible to imagine, but now anxiety really hung - no, no one will agree to our kingdom.

As expected , Urin was not looking for from the Varangians, but from conductors, let's say, of Russian origin, but having a name in the West. In recent weeks, the circle of candidates discussed by the public has narrowed up to three people - the youngest Yurovsky, Vasily Petrenko and Tugan Sokhiev. And so, having made a spectacular weekend between the announcement of the press conference and the briefings themselves (during which, of course, the treasured name leaked to the social network), the general director even before the deadline demonstrated the result of his searches. He was clearly satisfied, and in general, not in vain.

So, Tugan Taymurazovich Sokhiev. Ossetian, born in 1977 in Vladikavkaz, graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, managed to learn from the very old Ilya Musin for the first three years. Representative of the St. Petersburg conductor school. Since 2005, a lot has been working at the Mariinsky Theater. On this, meaningful parallels with Valery Gergiev end. Although, of course, the precipitate remains-about the unified network of “Imperial theaters” (in Mikhailovsky, everything is also “captured”, there is a Gergievsky protege Mikhail Tatartnikov), the center of which is on the theater square of St. Petersburg, only the lazy does not say. At the same time, no one has canceled the jealousy of Gergiev and his resentment in relation to the defectors - but then not such an exciting picture looms.

However, the director of Urin seems to be more important than that part of Sokhiev’s creative path, which proceeds regardless of the Mariinsky Theater. The young conductor already leads two groups - the National Orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse (with which he visited Moscow) and the German symphony orchestra Berlin, where he is very in sight (some performances in the Berlin Philharmonic are worth it). In addition, he collaborates with many most important opera and symphonic institutions, including Viennese and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gevandhaus, London Philharmonic, and Vienna opera. Immediately after the press conference at the Bolshoi Theater, Sokhiev flew through the ocean to debut with the famous Philadelphia Orchestra.

Urin emphasized many times that he completely does not against the Western contracts of his new employee, although he understands that at first they will greatly interfere with the as tight communication of the conductor with the theater (the contract with him enters into force on February 1 and is designed for 4 years). In reality, this density can only be hoped after a year and a half, in the 2015/2016 season. For the first time, the Maestro remote control promises to get up in September-and make two products in the 2014/2015 season. Until the end of the current season, he will come from time to time in order to go on the course of business and get acquainted with the theater. Let me remind you that Sokhiev has never been conducted in Bolshoi, and I can assume that getting acquainted with the current state of the theater is almost exhausted by one act of the “Jewelry” ballet and the concert performance of the “Figaro Wedding” by the youth troupe, which he managed to visit yesterday.

To the nearest prime minister, planned by the previous leadership, the “royal bride” of Rimsky-Korsakov, who also remained abandoned, hurriedly invited by Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Vladimir Fedoseev refused). Premiere - February 22. Urin said that there are already some long -term agreements on the production with Vladimir Yurovsky and Semen Bychkov. But the details will be announced only in May - and, maybe even, these will be plans not only for the next season, but also three forward. However, the previous leadership of the theater also somehow proudly declared plans for three seasons ahead. And what? How much will remain from those plans? Alas, long -term planning and Russian personnel policy are so far two things are incompatible.