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Valery Gergiev

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A glittering evening of opera arias from the great Valery Gergiev and the diva Anna Netrebko.A live recording of the landmark concert that thrills Viennese audiences every year. Together with the New Year’s Concert, the Summer Night Concert has become one of the Vienna Philharmonic’s signature events since its inauguration in 2004. Held in the open air at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Schnbrunn Palace, the concert is free of charge to an audience of some 100,000, and is broadcast live (or in recorded form) to more than 60 countries.Conductors of the stature of Gergiev, Dudamel, Barenboim, Welser-Mst, Maazel, Eschenbach and Mehta have appeared, as have pianists such as Lang Lang and Rudolf Buchbinder. For the Vienna Philharmonic, it counts as the most important concert of its year.Sony Classical has released the series since 2013; for the sixth instalment, in 2018, Valery Gergiev takes the