The answer of the leader of the world’s most famous opera to the presenter of BBC Farsi + Film

Fars news agency – music group: After the official announcement of the exclusive news of the appointment of Ali Darari as the leader of the world’s most famous opera by the Fars news agency, all the media covered the said news, but the Persian BBC, which wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and have a conversation with this well-known leader against Iran, He was met with an unexpected answer from Professor Ali Derari.

International conductor Ali Leder, living in Vienna, Austria, has conducted the world’s largest orchestras. He was recently invited by the Russian Vali Gergiev, one of the world’s greatest conductors, to perform at the Russian Mariinsky Opera. After the performance, Gergiev was greatly surprised by the level of performance and leadership of Ustad Ali, and appointed him as the permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra, which is considered the most famous and largest of its kind in the world.

It should be noted that after the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Valery Gergiev himself was sanctioned by the West because of his appointment to support Putin and his refusal to condemn the Russian president.

Now, BBC Persian originally, considering the same positions and with a view mainly to confront the world’s leading musicians who do not consider themselves under the domination of Western hegemony, arranged a conversation with Master Ali Dari, in order to put him in a situation and he to implicitly condemn that despite the opposition of the West to Russia, he accepted the invitation to conduct the big orchestra of this country.

In part of his questions, the BBC Farsi reporter asked the master conductor: Many artists have boycotted Russia. Why didn’t you join them and participate in this orchestra?

To which the conducting teacher replied: First of all, none of the musicians have been sanctioned. If they were sanctioned, I would not accept it. I am one of those artists who do not accept any type of embargo because in my opinion, from the point of view of a musician and an artist, embargo and torture are not different.

BBC Farsi reporter: You must have heard the name of the city of Khmelnytskyi in Ukraine.
Conductor: Yes, I have worked there!

BBC Farsi reporter: When you went on stage and performed in St. Petersburg, did you think about them? The ones you went to before the war (and conducted their orchestra.)
Conductor: I am a musician and I am not a politician and we have no connection with politicians. We do our job. We do not look at which country to go to and which not to go.

*If it was a matter of sanctions, I should have sanctioned England first

BBC Farsi reporter: What do you say to the people and the mayor of Khmelnytskyi who was bombed by Russia?
Conductor: I say that I suffer from every war and every bomb. If I were to boycott in the last 45 years, I would boycott most musicians and artists from the country you live in, England. When they were dropping bombs on people in Afghanistan, assuming that Bin Laden was probably there! Or Mr. George Bush and Mr. Tony Blair when they bombed Baghdad, then I should have sanctioned everyone and even Hollywood movies. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima… no one can force me to speak against it in the country where you live and Austria where I live!

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