Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in Germany in 2019.
Russian Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in Germany in 2019. He has quit as the Bolshoi Theatre music director amid pressure to take a position on the conflict in Ukraine. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA
Russian Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in Germany in 2019. He has quit as the Bolshoi Theatre music director amid pressure to take a position on the conflict in Ukraine. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA


source https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/07/impossible-bolshoi-music-director-tugan-sokhiev-quits-over-calls-to-denounce-ukraine-invasion