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Olga Rostropovich: “4th International Rostropovich Festival is a peak level of previous ones”

Olga Rostropovich: “4th International Rostropovich Festival is a peak level of previous ones”
# 10 December 2010 11:50 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Ulker Gasimova – APA. On December12-19, Baku plans to host 4th International Rostropovich Festival initiated by Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. APA reports that Head of Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation, maestro’s daughter Olga Rostropovich has held a press conference today in Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich’s museum. She expressed her happiness during her Baku visit. She called Baku as her native city and said that the city’s hospitability and hot temper cheered her. She noted that unlike previous festivals, this international project will be held in wide scale: “4TH International Rostropovich Festival is a peak level of previous festivals, because the most famous musicians of the world will attend this festival. World-famed band-master Zubin Meta is among them. Famous French actor Gérard Depardieu will come on the Baku stage before demonstration of “Carmen” opera”

She said that the opening ceremony of the festival would be held on Heydar Aliyev’s memory day on December 12: “We want to remember and pay homage to these 2 personalities through holding the opening ceremony on that day. The festival will be opened in an unusual way and Youth Orchestra will perform at the stage. My father wanted to establish such kind of orchestra. But the orchestra was established after his death”.
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