Speaker: Valery Gergiev (Artistic Director, The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra)
Date: November 26, 2019
Location: NCPA, China
Selected speech
We respect to the audiences being young. We will think all this is a little too complicated, or this is a little too long, or this is a little unpopular. We think we are not taking risks, but overall we do take risk. We actually take risk of being less respectful of our public. We very often underestimate how curious the audiences are. But in all taking this kind of risk is a very brave but also right thing to do.
