“In connection with the confirmation of a positive result on COVID-19 by Maestro Valery Gergiev and Maestro Daniil Trifonov, the concert of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra ... is canceled,” RIA Novosti reports.

As noted, the performance of the orchestra was to take place on Saturday, February 12, in Rome.

Earlier it was reported that the British Prince Charles also fell ill with a coronavirus infection COVID-19 and was sent to self-isolation.