PRESS-CONFERENCE IN TOKIO

On October 11 Ferruccio Furlanetto participated in the big press-conference with the Mariinsky Theatre Artistic director and conductor Valery Gergiev, director of Eugeny Ongein Alexei Stepanyk, members of the Don Carlo and Eugeny Onegin casts - Maria Bayankina, Julia Matochukina, Younghoon Lee, Dmitry Korchak, Alexei Markov and speakers from the Nomura Holdings, Inc. and Group COO Ozaki.

Valery Gergiev in his opening speech pointed special appearance of Ferruccio Furlanetto in the Mariinsky Therater tour and said that, “we are friends with Ferruccio, performed together in many occasions, never missed a possibility to perform together and have big plans for the future”.

Ferruccio Furlanetto said: “I’m very glad to be with you (meaning Japaneese people) and with Mariinsky. This year it is 35 years since my debut in Japan. In 1981 I was here with La Scala in Il Barbiere di Seviglia with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Abbado… And I must say that Japaneese public was always interested, competent and truly splendid…” Full video of the press-conference is available.