MOSCOW, December 1 Vladimir Urin thanked the Bolshoi Theater staff for ten and a half years of happiness working together, the correspondent reports.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova reported that Urin wrote a statement of his own free will.
«My most sincere words of gratitude for ten years of happiness, for the fact that ten and a half years ago it was decided that I would head this theater… These were ten and a half years of happiness working with you,» — Urin addressed the staff of the Bolshoi Theater in his speech introducing the new director.
Urin emphasized that working together with all the staff of the Bolshoi Theater was a pleasure for him. “Because I am absolutely convinced that the Bolshoi Theater has a huge number of talented people,” concluded the former director of the Bolshoi Theater.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree appointing Valery Gergiev as general director of the Bolshoi Theater for a period of five years, they reported Telegram channel of the government.
Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with laureates of awards in the field of culture and art, suggested that Gergiev think about creating a joint directorate of the Bolshoi Theater and the Mariinsky Theater. A year later, on May 2 of this year, at a meeting with Putin, Gergiev admitted that he was ready for large-scale tasks in working with theaters, “a thorough analysis of the state of 20-30 theaters in Russia.” He emphasized that he could put maximum effort into solving the theaters’ problems. In addition, Gergiev told the president about the idea of creating four large cultural centers.