A day with Valery Gergiev II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Among the many highlights, find three of the preeminent Wagnerians of our day—Bryn Terfel, Eva Maria Westbroek, and Iréne Theorin—in a dynamite rendition of Die Walküre’s third act. Their tour de force is followed by another exceptional moment when Gergiev shows his mettle as a pianist, joining virtuosi Denis Matsuev and Daniil Trifonov in Mozart’s Concerto for Three Pianos in F Major. The maestro also conducts the first act of Otello, Verdi’s intense psychological drama adapted from Shakespeare, in a version featuring the great Anna Netrebko as Desdemona. The opening movements of Mahler’s Fifth and Shostakovich’s Fifth, plus a symphonic diptych by Shchedrin and Ravel’s perennially popular Boléro—in homage to ballerina Maya Plisetskaya—round out this selection of Gergiev’s greatest hits from Verbier over the last decade.

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