The White Nights is a nearly three month-long midsummer celebration that heralds the almost 24-hours of sunlight that blesses this northern latitude.

BBC: Living in: St Petersburg

The White Nights festival at the Mariinsky Theatre a fortnight of almost non-stop performances that ended on July 1st is an extraordinary accomplishment.

ECONOMIST: Musical moments

Revealed follows Gergiev to St Petersburg for the White Nights Festival where the Mariinsky Orchestra perform a new opera, "The Enchanted Wanderer".

CNN: Coming up on Revealed: Valery Gergiev

Presently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and The World Orchestra of Peace, Valery Gergiev is also founder and Artistic Director of the Stars of the White Nights Festival and New Horizons Festival in St.

UNESCO: Valery Gergiev

It was the signal for Redknapp to introduce Bale in place of Van der Vaart, who was not able to reproduce the explosive impact of previous European nights at White Hart Lane.

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On the album produced by mandolinist David Harvey, bluegrass stars from Harley Allen, Tim O'Brien, and Alison Krauss to Stuart Duncan and Aubrey Haynie are called on to interpret "Your Wildest Dreams, " "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band, " and "Nights in White Satin, " among others.

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He remembers nights at London's White City track, now BBC offices, when crowds of up to 50, 000 were common.

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