MILAN --
Russian Valery Gergiev is not going to conduct the orchestra at Milan's La Scala this week after he did not condemn the invasion of Ukraine, town mayor mentioned on Monday.
Gergiev -- basic director of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre and considered near Russian President Vladimir Putin -- performed "The Queen of Spades," an opera primarily based on Alexander Pushkin's novel at La Scala on Feb. 23.
The present will run till March 15 and the subsequent efficiency shall be on Saturday.
"I do not suppose he shall be there, I feel at this level we are able to rule it out," Giuseppe Sala, La Scala theatre board chairman and mayor of Milan, instructed reporters on Monday.
"The Maestro didn't reply to us," he added.
Mayor Sala and La Scala inventive director Dominique Meyer had urged Gergiev final week to sentence the Ukraine invasion or now not be allowed to carry out within the present.
Gergiev was additionally purported to conduct three live shows at New York's Carnegie Corridor main the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from Feb. 25-27.
However the Russian conductor was changed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in keeping with the theatre's web site, which gave no motive for that call.
The Mariinsky Theatre didn't reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Moscow-born Gergiev, 68, has carried out in essentially the most well-known theatres around the globe. In 2013, Putin awarded him the primary title of Hero of Labour of Russia.
(Reporting by Sara Rossi,Modifying by Keith Weir and Ed Osmond)