Conductor Sergei Stadler’s farewell concert will be held in St. Petersburg on Sunday, April 26. According to the press service of the Petersburg concert.
The musician’s funeral service will be held at St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Stadler will be buried in the Smolensk cemetery.
The statement read: “The staff of the Petersburg Concert and the maestro’s relatives and friends will be grateful to everyone who finds, on this sad day, the opportunity to join us and bid farewell to the great musician and outstanding person on his last journey.” message.
On April 20, an Airbus A321 passenger plane, en route from Saint Petersburg to Istanbul, made an emergency landing in Romania. The ship’s crew sent a distress signal two hours after departure. Later, information emerged that the plane’s emergency landing was caused by a dying passenger on board.
Later it became known that the passenger who died on the plane was the conductor of the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Sergei Stadler.