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Valery Gergiev, the renowned conductor of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera in St. Petersburg, was pleased by the President's direct interest in his new production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace; as was Nani Bregvadze, a legendary Georgian singer, whom Putin begged on his knees to sing for him after missing her concert at the Moscow Conservatory.
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