Valery Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.

KNOWN FOR

The South Bank Show
1997
The Culture Show
2005
Russian Ark
2002
Tannhäuser
2019
A History of Dance on Screen
2014
Ballerina
2006
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2013
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'The Nutcracker - Ballet in three acts with an epilogue' 2012 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
2012
Music, War and Revolution
2018
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'Swan Lake' 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
2007
La Bayadère
2014

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
51
Directing
1
Sound
29
2025
Lexo
as Self
2022
Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making
as Self
2020
Summer Night Concert: 2020
as Self - Dirigent
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman
as Self Conductor
2019
Verbier Festival – The 25th Anniversary Concert
as Conductor
2019
Tannhäuser
as Self - Conductor
2018
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2018
as Dirigent
2018
Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances
as Conductor
2018
Summer Night Concert: 2018 - Vienna Philharmonic
as Conductor
2018
Music and Power
as Self
2018
Music, War and Revolution
as Self
2017
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2017
as Dirigent
2016
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2016
as Dirigent
2016
After You're Gone
as Himself
2016
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
as Conductor
2016
BBC Proms 2016: Ravel, M. / Strauss, R. / Berlioz, H. (Abduraimov, Munich Philharmonic, Gergiev)
as Conductor
2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015
The Mariinsky II Opening Gala
as Conductor
2014
A History of Dance on Screen
as Self
2013
The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2013
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
as Self - principal conductor
2012
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'The Nutcracker - Ballet in three acts with an epilogue' 2012 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
as Conductor
2011
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 - Gergiev
as Conductor
2011
Tchaikovsky: Simphonies 4,5 & 6 - Valery Gergiev
as Conductor
2010
Verdi Attila
as Conductor
2010
Russian Lessons
as Self
2010
Attila
as Conductor
2008
Mariinsky Theatre
as Self
2008
The Nutcracker
as Conductor
2007
New Year’s Concert in St Petersburg
as Conductor
2006
Ballerina
as Self
2006
Bringing Balanchine Back
2005
Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
2005
The Culture Show
as Self
2003
The Master and His Pupil
as Himself
2003
Valery Gergiev Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Prokofiev, Schnittke & Stravinsky
2003
Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
as Self - Conductor
2002
Russian Ark
as Conductor
2002
All the Russias: A Musical Journey
as Host
1998
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
as Conductor
1998
Prince Igor: Kirov Ballet
as Conductor
1997
The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin
as Self, conductor
1997
The South Bank Show
1996
Ruslan and Lyudmila
1994
Sadko
1990
Boris Godunov
as Self - Conductor
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Daniil Trifonov, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
Dimitri Shostakovitch - Concerto for violin and Orchestra No.2, Symphony No.7 'Leningrad'
Johannes Brahms - Karol Szymanowski - Symphonies No2 (London Symphony Orchestra)