“The Carnegie Concert Hall and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra announce that Yannick Nesit-Seguin will replace Valerie Gergiev as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for three performances at Carnegie Hall from Friday 25 February to Sunday 27 February,” the hall said in a statement on its website.
Party organizers did not explain why Gergive was replaced by Seguin.
On Thursday, Milan’s La Scala theater demanded Gergiev to call for a peaceful solution to the situation in Ukraine, or else he could be suspended from the “Queen of Spades” opera, which will be shown from March 5-13.
In a speech to the Russian people at dawn on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special military operation to protect Donbass in southeastern Ukraine.