Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (; born Moscow, 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian birth. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1988, and was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York until 2022. Valery Gergiev is the artistic director of the White Nights Festival in Saint Petersburg.