The symphony concert conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Royal Palace of Caserta, which was scheduled as part of the Un’Estate da Re festival for July 27 in the courtyard of the Vanvitellian Complex, has been canceled. This was announced in a note by the Directorate of the Royal Palace of Caserta.
Recently, Julija Naval’naja, widow of opponent Aleksej Naval’nyj, had asked in Repubblica not to have Gergiev perform in Caserta because of his closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I am simply obliged to say this: there is a big problem with the 2025 Festival A Summer Like a King,“ Naval’naja had written. ”Because Valery Gergiev, a famous Russian conductor, has been invited to the event. And a close friend of Vladimir Putin. Not just a friend. And not only a supporter. But also a promoter of Putin’s criminal policy, his accomplice and flanker."
The choice of Gergiev as conductor had been criticized by several Italian politicians and human rights activists, and even Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli himself had in recent days sided with those who had called for the concert’s cancellation.
“Art is free and cannot be censored. Propaganda, however, even if done with talent, is another thing,” he had said. “That is why the concert of Putin’s friend and adviser Valery Gergiev, wanted, promoted and paid for by the Campania Region and to be held in the Royal Palace of Caserta, which is autonomous in its choice of which events to host, like all autonomous institutes of the Ministry of Culture, risks passing the wrong message. Ukraine is an invaded nation, and Gergiev’s concert may turn a high-level but objectively controversial and divisive musical event into a sounding board for Russian propaganda. What for me would be deplorable.”
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