Valery Gergiev
Biography
Valery Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Gallery
Known For
Russian Ark
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Russian Lessons
The Culture Show
Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 - Gergiev
Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making
The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Summer Night Concert: 2020
Acting History
2025
Lexo as Self
2022Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance as Self (archive footage)
2020Summer Night Concert: 2020 as Self - Dirigent
2020Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making as Self
2019Verbier Festival – The 25th Anniversary Concert as Conductor
2018Music, War and Revolution as Self
2018Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2018 as Dirigent
2018Summer Night Concert: 2018 - Vienna Philharmonic as Conductor
2018Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances as Conductor
2018BBC Proms 2016: Ravel, M. / Strauss, R. / Berlioz, H. (Abduraimov, Munich Philharmonic, Gergiev) as Conductor
2018Music and Power as Self
2017Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2017 as Dirigent
2016Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2016 as Dirigent
2016After You're Gone as Himself
2016Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila as Conductor
2015Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015The Mariinsky II Opening Gala as Conductor
2013Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2013The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra as Self (archive footage)
2013Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre as Self - principal conductor
2012The Nutcracker - Mariinsky Theatre as Conductor
2011Tchaikovsky: Simphonies 4,5 & 6 - Valery Gergiev as Conductor
2011Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 - Gergiev as Conductor
2010Attila as Conductor
2010Verdi Attila as Conductor
2010Russian Lessons as Self
2008Mariinsky Theatre as Self
2006Ballerina as Self
2006Bringing Balanchine Back
2005Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
2004The Culture Show as Self
2003The Master and His Pupil as Himself
2003Valery Gergiev Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Prokofiev, Schnittke & Stravinsky
2003Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg as Self - Conductor
2002Russian Ark as Conductor
2002All the Russias: A Musical Journey as Host
1998Parsifal: The Search for the Grail as Conductor
1997The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin as Self, conductor
1996Ruslan and Lyudmila
1994Sadko
1990Boris Godunov as Self - Conductor
—Dimitri Shostakovitch - Concerto for violin and Orchestra No.2, Symphony No.7 'Leningrad'
—Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Daniil Trifonov, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
—Johannes Brahms - Karol Szymanowski - Symphonies No2 (London Symphony Orchestra)