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It's official: Valery Gergiev is the busiest conductor on Earth.
How does he feel about being the planet's busiest conductor?
No surprises that Valery Gergiev was officially the busiest conductor, that Messiah was the single most performed concert work, or that La Traviata was the most staged opera; more surprising was that Wagner's most performed opera The Flying Dutchman, was placed a relatively distant 12th.
There had been two abortive attempts to secure an audience with the man they call "the busiest conductor in the world", once in the Rotterdam Holiday Inn at 3am, when he practically keeled over in mid-sentence from sheer exhaustion, and again in London's Waldorf hotel, when I'd been triple-booked with another journalist and Peter Katona of the Royal Opera House.
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