The Russian premiere of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Salambo was suspended for an hour while its conductor Valery Gergiev popped out to attend to other duties across town.
Inexplicable,and unprofessional.
Here’s what the Telegram channel reports:
Valery Gergiev left one of the premiere performances at the Bolshoi Theater to conduct a performance of a song based on the poems of Maria Zakharova. According to the audience, the intermission lasted almost an hour due to the maestro’s absence.