Vasily Petrenko began his music education at Russia’s oldest ... to name a fine few. He became Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in 2006 and becomes the new Music Director of the ...

Its music director, from the beginning of the 2021-22 season, will be Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko. The orchestra was formed in 1946 by conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, whose vision was to build an ...

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev than Shostakovich in Vasily Petrenko’s hands. This is less the child of ...