номер 6 (страница 97) гдз по английскому языку 7 класс тренировочные упражнения в формате ОГЭ Ваулина, Подоляко

6. Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS).

Valery Gergiev is an artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg. While he was still a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory, V. Gergiev won very important national and international conducting competitions. His debut as a conductor (дирижёр) at the Mariinsky theatre was in 1978 with Sergei Prokofiev's opera War and Peace. In 1988 Valery Gergiev was appointed Music Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, and in 1996 he became its Artistic and General Director (leading the orchestra and opera and ballet companies).

Since Valery Gergiev came to the theatre, it has become a tradition to hold thematic festivals to mark various anniversaries of composers. In the 21st century there were festivals with a celebration of one hundred years of Dmitry Shostakovich in 2006, one hundred and seventy-five years of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in 2015, one hundred and twenty-five years of Sergei Prokofiev in 2016, one hundred and seventy-five years of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 2019 and ninety years of Rodion Shchedrin in 2022.

The Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev has reached new heights, performing not just opera and ballet scores (партитуры) but also a rich symphony music repertoire -every symphony by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich and other composers. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev the Mariinsky Theatre has become a major theatre and concert complex, recognized and loved all over the world.

Valery Gergiev focuses much of his attention on working with young musicians. From 2013 to 2022 the maestro directed the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and regularly appeared with the youth orchestras at various music festivals all over the world. Since 2015 the Mariinsky Theatre has run the Mariinsky NEXT festival, which features children's and youth orchestras of St Petersburg.

Valery Gergiev's musical and public activities have brought him three State Prizes of the Russian Federation and a lot of prestigious titles and state awards of Russia and foreign countries.

1. Valery Gergiev has lived and worked in St Petersburg all his life.____

2. Valery Gergiev was a talented student at the Conservatory.____

3. He started working as a conductor in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.____

4. Since 2000 there have been ten festivals in the Mariinsky Theatre to mark anniversaries of composers.____

5. There are about 400 musicians in the Mariinsky Orchestra today.____

6. There are 109 operas and 88 ballets in the Mariinsky Theatre repertoire.____

7. Valery Gergiev works a lot with the young musicians.____

8. The Mariinsky NEXT festival is to celebrate the coming anniversaries of the great composers.____