Conductor Sinaisky gives reasons for his resignation from Bolshoi Theater
MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) Vasily Sinaisky said he has decided to resign from the post of head conductor of the Bolshoi Theater to avoid a public conflict with the theater's General Director Vladimir Urin.
"The four months of working with him [Urin] have shown that our creative views are very different," Sinaisky said in an interview with the Voice of Russia radio.
"I couldn't understand him on issues relating to music, our future, our repertoire, etc. I felt an increasing gap between us and I didn't want to have a real conflict. For that reason, I decided to leave," he said.
Sinaisky admitted that the Bolshoi Theater general director is skillfully organizing the work in the theater. However, he said that he believes the main quality of the head of a theater should be the ability to find a common language with all members of his team.
On Monday, Urin told Interfax that Sinaisky had filed his resignation from the Bolshoi Theater. "Vasily Serafimovich Sinaisky is not working for the Russian Bolshoi Theater as of December 3, 2013. After talking to him, I made a decision to grant his request," he said.
Urin expressed his regrets about Sinaisky's resignation.
Sinaisky has been the head conductor and musical director of the Bolshoi Theater since September 2010. Before that, he had been a permanent invited conductor of the Bolshoi Theater for a year.