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<rss xmlns:yandex="http://news.yandex.ru" version="2.0"><channel><title>Мариинский театр</title><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/</link><description>Мариинский театр - News</description><language>en</language><item><title>Anastasia Matvienko’s debut in the ballet &lt;i&gt;Serenade&lt;/i&gt;</title><description>On 10 March Mariinsky Ballet Company soloist Anastasia Matvienko will be performing the lead role in George Balanchine&amp;rsquo;s ballet &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt; to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the first time.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;
On 10 March Mariinsky Ballet Company soloist &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(35281)%"&gt;Anastasia Matvienko&lt;/a&gt; will be performing the lead role in George Balanchine&amp;rsquo;s ballet &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(39272)%"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the first time.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The ballet &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; an acclaimed masterpiece of neoclassical choreography&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; will broaden the dancer&amp;rsquo;s repertoire; she already performs a solo role in this legendary choreographer&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Symphony in C&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

&amp;ldquo;Many people consider that &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt; has a hidden plot, though this is not in fact true,&amp;rdquo; as George Balanchine dismissed this popular ballet myth in his book &lt;em&gt;One Hundred and One Stories of the Great Ballets&lt;/em&gt;, which he co-wrote with Francis Mason. &amp;ldquo;In this ballet, the dancers simply move to beautiful music. The ballet&amp;rsquo;s only plot is the music of the serenade, if you like, it is a moonlit dance.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

The ballet &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt;, the world premiere of which was held in 1935 in New York at the Adelphi Theater, was George Balanchine&amp;rsquo;s first ballet production in the USA, where soon after he had emigrated the choreographer and Lincoln Kirstein and Edward M.&amp;nbsp;M.&amp;nbsp;Warburg opened the American Ballet School in New York. The choreographic drawing of &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt; emerged gradually, forming the result of evening ballet classes given by the choreographer. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

The premiere of &lt;em&gt;Serenade&lt;/em&gt; at the Mariinsky Theatre came on 30&amp;nbsp;April 1998. The production was staged in collaboration with the George Balanchine Foundation by the ballet-mistresses Francia Russell and Karin von Aroldingen. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

Anastasia Matvienko&amp;rsquo;s repertoire includes the roles of Gamzatti in &lt;em&gt;La&amp;nbsp;Bayad&amp;egrave;re&lt;/em&gt;, Aurora in &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Sleeping Beauty&lt;/em&gt; and the lead role in Jerome Robbins&amp;rsquo; ballet &lt;em&gt;In&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Night&lt;/em&gt;. In autumn 2009 Anastasia Matvienko performed the role of Odette-Odile in the ballet &lt;em&gt;Swan Lake&lt;/em&gt; at the theatre for the first time to great acclaim. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

Before she joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2009, the ballerina was previously a soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine and later the Mikhailovsky Theatre, together with which she toured to renowned ballet theatres throughout the world. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</yandex:full-text><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/9_march/</link><guid>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/9_march/</guid></item><item><title>The opera &lt;i&gt;The Nose&lt;/i&gt; conducted by maestro Gergiev in New York </title><description>On 5 March Valery Gergiev conducted a premiere of Shostakovich&amp;rsquo;s opera The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;
On 5 March &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(30907)%"&gt;Valery Gergiev&lt;/a&gt; conducted a &lt;a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org//metopera/season/production.aspx?id=10378" target="_blank"&gt;premiere of Shostakovich&amp;rsquo;s opera&lt;/a&gt; The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The new production is the&amp;nbsp;result of joint efforts of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre, the&amp;nbsp;Op&amp;eacute;ra National de Lyons and the&amp;nbsp;Aix-en-Provence Festival. The&amp;nbsp;Stage Director and Set Designer of the&amp;nbsp;production is the&amp;nbsp;highly acclaimed South African designer William Kentridge, who has won international renown thanks to his animated short films and charcoal drawings. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
The role of Major Kovalyov was performed by Paulo Szot, the&amp;nbsp;acclaimed Brazilian tenor of Polish descent who has received a Tony Award. The&amp;nbsp;role of the&amp;nbsp;District Inspector was performed by Mariinsky Opera Company soloist &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(33267)%"&gt;Andrei Popov&lt;/a&gt;. Mariinsky Theatre Concert Mistress &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(32240)%"&gt;Irina Soboleva&lt;/a&gt; was involved in preparations of the&amp;nbsp;production. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
Valery Gergiev will be conducting a further four performances on 11, 13, 18 and 23&amp;nbsp;March. On&amp;nbsp;25&amp;nbsp;March the&amp;nbsp;opera will be conducted by &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(30902)%"&gt;Pavel Smelkov&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
&amp;ldquo;The opera &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Nose&lt;/em&gt; is a work that deals with the&amp;nbsp;nightmares of a hierarchical system: in Tsarist Russia and in more recent Russian history, top-ranking officials traditionally gazed contemptuously on lower ranking staff,&amp;rdquo; the&amp;nbsp;production&amp;rsquo;s director William Kentridge said in an interview on the&amp;nbsp;website of the&amp;nbsp;Metropolitan Opera. &amp;ldquo;As a director, first and foremost I am drawn by the&amp;nbsp;phantasmagorical combination of chaos and the&amp;nbsp;absurd in the&amp;nbsp;plot. The&amp;nbsp;opera gives the&amp;nbsp;audience the&amp;nbsp;sensation that absolutely anything is possible.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
Alongside the&amp;nbsp;premiere performances of &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Nose&lt;/em&gt; in New York there were be several events marking the&amp;nbsp;occasion. The&amp;nbsp;halls of the&amp;nbsp;Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, situated in the&amp;nbsp;foyer of the&amp;nbsp;Metropolitan Opera, will be hosting an exhibition of works inspired by the&amp;nbsp;aesthetics of &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Nose&lt;/em&gt;. Moreover, the&amp;nbsp;Museum of Modern Art is organising a retrospective of William Kentridge&amp;rsquo;s works. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Nose&lt;/em&gt; was Dmitry Shostakovich&amp;rsquo;s first opera, which he composed at the&amp;nbsp;age of twenty-two in&amp;nbsp;1928. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
Valery Gergiev first turned to this opera by Shostakovich in 2004. On his initiative, &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(31795)%"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Nose&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was staged at the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre for the&amp;nbsp;first time. The&amp;nbsp;Stage Director was Yuri Alexandrov. This production, grotesque and dynamic, received unconditional praise from audiences and critics both in Russia and abroad. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
In 2009 at the&amp;nbsp;Concert Hall of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre a &lt;a href="http://mariinskylabel.com/page/2/Catalogue/1" target="_blank"&gt;recording of the&amp;nbsp;opera &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Nose&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was made with soloists of the&amp;nbsp;Opera Company and the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the&amp;nbsp;first disc to be released on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mariinsky&lt;/em&gt; recording label&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
The disc was released in summer 2009 and received several nominations for the&amp;nbsp;prestigious &lt;em&gt;Grammy&lt;/em&gt; awards, and it was also named one of the&amp;nbsp;ten most significant classical music recordings of 2009 according to &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Washington Post&lt;/em&gt;. The&amp;nbsp;recording received a MIDEM Classical Award in the&amp;nbsp;opera category and was nominated for a &lt;em&gt;BBC Music Magazine&lt;/em&gt; award.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</yandex:full-text><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/6_march1/</link><guid>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/6_march1/</guid></item><item><title>Debuts in the one-act operas &lt;i&gt;L’Heure espagnole&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Gianni Schicchi&lt;/i&gt; </title><description>On 7 March tenor Dmitry Koleushko will be performing the&amp;nbsp;role of clockmaker Torquemada in Maurice Ravel&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;L&amp;rsquo;Heure espagnole&lt;/em&gt; for the&amp;nbsp;first time, while soprano Karina Chepurnova will be making her debut as Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;Gianni Schicchi&lt;/em&gt;. These operas, performed in Russian, will be performed on the&amp;nbsp;same evening at the&amp;nbsp;Concert Hall of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre. </description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;
On &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(39404)%"&gt;7 March&lt;/a&gt; tenor &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(34790)%"&gt;Dmitry Koleushko&lt;/a&gt; will be performing the&amp;nbsp;role of clockmaker Torquemada in Maurice Ravel&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;L&amp;rsquo;Heure espagnole&lt;/em&gt; for the&amp;nbsp;first time, while soprano &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(31080)%"&gt;Karina Chepurnova&lt;/a&gt; will be making her debut as Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;Gianni Schicchi&lt;/em&gt;. These operas, performed in Russian, will be performed on the&amp;nbsp;same evening at the&amp;nbsp;Concert Hall of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre. 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The role of the&amp;nbsp;feeble old clockmaker, whose young wife Concepci&amp;oacute;n is secretly receiving her admirers and hiding them in long-case clocks, demands a strong character of the&amp;nbsp;soloist. Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers soloist Dmitry Koleushko performs roles in operas such as Gioacchino Rossini&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Il&amp;nbsp;viaggio a Reims&lt;/em&gt;, Sergei Prokofiev&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Gambler&lt;/em&gt; and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Die Zauberfl&amp;ouml;te&lt;/em&gt; at the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre. His debut as Torquemada marks a serious step in the&amp;nbsp;singer&amp;rsquo;s artistic development. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
The prototype for Ravel&amp;rsquo;s opera, written in a humoristic key, a true comedy of situations that revived the&amp;nbsp;traditions of opera buffa, was, according to the&amp;nbsp;composer himself, Musorgsky&amp;rsquo;s unfinished opera &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Marriage&lt;/em&gt; after motifs from the&amp;nbsp;eponymous work by Gogol. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers soloist Karina Chepurnova has appeared in the&amp;nbsp;role of Musetta in Puccini&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;La&amp;nbsp;Boh&amp;egrave;me&lt;/em&gt; at the&amp;nbsp;theatre to great acclaim. In late January during a tour by the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Theatre to Moscow&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Golden Mask&lt;/em&gt; festival the&amp;nbsp;singer gave a brilliant interpretation of the&amp;nbsp;role of Susanna in Mozart&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;Le&amp;nbsp;nozze di Figaro&lt;/em&gt;. The&amp;nbsp;opera &lt;em&gt;Gianni Schicchi&lt;/em&gt; is based on lines from Dante&amp;rsquo;s poem &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Divine Comedy&lt;/em&gt; which relates how the&amp;nbsp;old rogue Gianni Schicchi fools his grasping relations by portraying himself as a dying rich man and compiling a false will in his name. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
The role of Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi&amp;rsquo;s daughter who loves the&amp;nbsp;young man Rinuccio but whom she cannot marry as she has no dowry, is one of the&amp;nbsp;most romantic in the&amp;nbsp;Puccini repertoire. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The performance begins at 11.30. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</yandex:full-text><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/6_march/</link><guid>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/6_march/</guid></item><item><title>A debut in Mozart’s opera &lt;i&gt;Don Giovanni&lt;/i&gt;</title><description>Coloratura soprano Lyudmila Dudinova will be performing the role of Zerlina in Mozart&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;em&gt;Don Giovanni&lt;/em&gt; for the first time at the Mariinsky Theatre on 5&amp;nbsp;March. </description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;
Coloratura soprano &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(39248)%"&gt;Lyudmila Dudinova&lt;/a&gt; will be performing the role of Zerlina in Mozart&amp;rsquo;s opera &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(39402)%"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don Giovanni&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the first time at the Mariinsky Theatre on 5&amp;nbsp;March. 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The new role broadens the singer&amp;rsquo;s Mozartian repertoire, which already includes the roles of Papagena and Pamina in &lt;em&gt;Die&amp;nbsp;Zauberfl&amp;ouml;te&lt;/em&gt;, Susanna in &lt;em&gt;Le&amp;nbsp;nozze di&amp;nbsp;Figaro&lt;/em&gt; and the recent addition of Despina in &lt;em&gt;Cos&amp;igrave; fan tutte&lt;/em&gt;. Lyudmila Dudinova&amp;rsquo;s repertoire moreover includes the roles of Violetta in Verdi&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;La&amp;nbsp;traviata&lt;/em&gt;, Ninetta in Prokofiev&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Love for Three Oranges&lt;/em&gt;, Lyudmila in Glinka&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Ruslan and Lyudmila&lt;/em&gt;, Snegurochka in Rimsky-Korsakov&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Snow Maiden&lt;/em&gt; and Nanetta in Verdi&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Falstaff&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The role of Zerlina demands not just the ability to cope with a complex and high tessitura from the singer, but also a masterful command of acting technique. The naive yet somewhat crafty simple girl Zerlina, innocently heeding Don Giovanni&amp;rsquo;s compliments in the seduction scene, appears as a deep, passionate and integral character in the scenes of the bridegroom Masetto&amp;rsquo;s all-consuming jealousy. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</yandex:full-text><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/3_march1/</link><guid>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/3_march1/</guid></item><item><title>A performance by Academy students at the opening of the &lt;i&gt;Year of Russia in France&lt;/i&gt;</title><description>Soloists of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers, directed by Larisa Gergieva, gave a&amp;nbsp;concert for the&amp;nbsp;first visitors to the&amp;nbsp;exhibition &lt;em&gt;A&amp;nbsp;Window on Russia&lt;/em&gt;, which opened on 2&amp;nbsp;March at the&amp;nbsp;Centre de Russie pour la science et la culture in Paris as part of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Year of Russia in France&lt;/em&gt;. </description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;
Soloists of the&amp;nbsp;Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers, directed by Larisa Gergieva, gave a&amp;nbsp;concert for the&amp;nbsp;first visitors to the&amp;nbsp;exhibition &lt;em&gt;A&amp;nbsp;Window on Russia&lt;/em&gt;, which opened on 2&amp;nbsp;March at the&amp;nbsp;Centre de Russie pour la science et la culture in Paris as part of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Year of Russia in France&lt;/em&gt;. 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;From 1 to 3 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was on an official State visit to the&amp;nbsp;French capital, taking part in events of the&amp;nbsp;Russian-French year of exchange. The&amp;nbsp;opening ceremony of the&amp;nbsp;exhibition &lt;em&gt;A&amp;nbsp;Window on Russia&lt;/em&gt; was attended by the&amp;nbsp;Russian President&amp;rsquo;s wife Svetlana Medvedeva. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Promising young soloists of the&amp;nbsp;Academy Andrei Serov and Yulia Matochkina together with accompanist Larisa Gergieva performed works by Russian and French composers for visitors to the&amp;nbsp;exhibition. As Svetlana Medvedeva stated at the&amp;nbsp;opening of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Window on Russia&lt;/em&gt; exhibition, projects involving young people form a&amp;nbsp;key element of the&amp;nbsp;cultural programme of the&amp;nbsp;of the&amp;nbsp;cultural programme of &lt;em&gt;Year of Russia in France and of France in Russia&lt;/em&gt;. Fifty-eight young artists, graphic designers and sculptors from thirty regions throughout Russia have works on display at the&amp;nbsp;exhibition. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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On 2, 3 and 4 March the Mariinsky Ballet Company will be performing in Moscow as part of the &lt;em&gt;Golden Mask&lt;/em&gt; Russian theatre festival.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;On &lt;a href="http://www.goldenmask.ru/spect.php?id=524" target="_blank"&gt;2 and 3 March&lt;/a&gt; the St&amp;nbsp;Petersburg dancers will perform Rodion Shchedrin&amp;rsquo;s ballet &lt;em&gt;The Little Humpbacked Horse&lt;/em&gt;, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre.&amp;nbsp;There, on &lt;a href="http://www.goldenmask.ru/spect.php?id=523" target="_blank"&gt;4 March&lt;/a&gt;, the Mariinsky Ballet Company will also be presenting three one-act ballets. The programme features George Balanchine&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Scotch Symphony&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Theme and Variations&lt;/em&gt; as well as Jerome Robbins&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;In the Night&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

The ballet &lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Little Humpbacked Horse&lt;/em&gt;, premiered last season at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Mariinsky&lt;/em&gt; International Ballet Festival, has received five nominations for Russia&amp;rsquo;s most prestigious theatre prize. The nominations include &amp;ldquo;Best work by a choreographer&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; Alexei Ratmansky; &amp;ldquo;Best work by a designer in musical theatre&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; Maxim Isaev; and &amp;ldquo;Best ballet&amp;rdquo;. Mariinsky Theatre soloists Alina Somova (the Tsar Maiden) and Leonid Sarafanov (Ivan the Fool), who have been engaged for the Moscow tour, have been nominated for this ballet in the categories &amp;ldquo;Best male role in ballet&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Best female role in ballet&amp;rdquo;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;

The awards ceremony for winners of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Golden Mask&lt;/em&gt; will take place in Moscow on 16&amp;nbsp;April 2010&amp;nbsp;in Gostiny Dvor. The XVI&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Golden Mask&lt;/em&gt; festival runs in advance of the ceremony, from 27&amp;nbsp;March to 15&amp;nbsp;April. This year Mariinsky Theatre productions have received a total of thirteen nominations for this prestigious theatre prize. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</yandex:full-text><link>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/2_march2/</link><guid>http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/news1/2_march2/</guid></item><item><title>Unity of art and sport at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games </title><description>Maestro Gergiev took part in the transfer of the Olympic baton to the town of Sochi during the festive closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in&amp;nbsp;Vancouver. </description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:30:00 +0300</pubDate><yandex:full-text>&lt;table border="0" style="width: 100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Maestro Gergiev took part in the transfer of the Olympic baton to the town of Sochi during the festive closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in&amp;nbsp;Vancouver.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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For the presentation of the Sochi Olympic Games, the Russian side drew on the country&amp;rsquo;s greatest creative and artistic resources. Valery Gergiev together with Mariinsky Ballet Company soloist Ulyana Lopatkina, internationally acclaimed soprano Maria Guleghina and Bolshoi Ballet Company soloist Nikolai Tsiskaridze emerged as special cultural envoys for the Sochi Olympics during the games in Vancouver. 
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&amp;ldquo;TO the sound of the Russian national anthem the main arena was lit up in the colours of our flag,&amp;rdquo; reported &lt;em&gt;Zvezda&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;TV&amp;rsquo;s news service, &amp;ldquo;The presentation of the Sochi Olympic Games has begun with a &amp;lsquo;calling card&amp;rsquo; from the future host city. Valery Gergiev then entered the stadium. Using a satellite TV link, he conducted an orchestra located on Red&amp;nbsp;Square.&amp;rdquo;  .  
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&amp;ldquo;With a wave of his hand, maestro Valery Gergiev launched Sviridov&amp;rsquo;s energetic rhythm &lt;em&gt;Time,&amp;nbsp;Forward! &lt;/em&gt;, and in an eight-minute-long clip all of the great Russian symbols were displayed: Garagin&amp;rsquo;s first flight in space, the Bolshoi Ballet Company and Olympic ice dance champions Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov,&amp;rdquo; reported the correspondent from the RBK agency. &amp;ldquo;In the finale, hockey players Alexander Ovechkin and Vladislav Tretiak came on stage and, during the closing ceremony of the Games in Vancouver, Yevgeny Plyushchenko and Irina Rodnina were dressed in sports gear bearing the emblem &lt;em&gt;Sochi-2014&amp;rdquo; &lt;/em&gt;. 
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After the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games and the transfer of the baton for the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Valery Gergiev held a press conference on the results of the Vancouver Olympics for Russian journalists at the Russian Embassy in Washington: &amp;ldquo;I can explain the achievements of the Russian team at the Olympic Games by saying we have almost exhausted the Soviet methods, discoveries and great and powerful traditions, and I think that if we use that we will no longer be able to skate our way to gold medals or jump high enough to reach them.&amp;rdquo; (From materials provided by the &lt;em&gt;Interfax&lt;/em&gt; information agency.) 
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Auditions for places at the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers will take place on&amp;nbsp;5&amp;nbsp;March starting at&amp;nbsp;11.00&amp;nbsp;a.m. 
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Additions for the Academy of Young Singers will also be held in&amp;nbsp;April and May&amp;nbsp;2010. &lt;br /&gt;Audition dates and times will be announced later. 
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Filipp Styopin has a highly diverse talent. At the Mariinsky Theatre he has successfully performed roles from the classical repertoire, neoclassical works and contemporary choreography. Ballet critics noted the dancer&amp;rsquo;s impeccable technique in Peter Quanz&amp;rsquo; one-act ballet &lt;em&gt;Aria&amp;nbsp;Suspended&lt;/em&gt; to music by Igor Stravinsky, which was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in&amp;nbsp;2007. 
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This gifted and capable soloist&amp;rsquo;s repertoire includes roles in the ballets &lt;em&gt;Giselle, Swan Lake, Raymonda, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Jewels, Prodigal Son, The Golden Age&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Overcoat after Gogol&lt;/em&gt;. At the VI&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Maslenitsa&lt;/em&gt; festival the young dancer performed the role of P&amp;eacute;trouchka in the premiere performances of the ballet &lt;em&gt;P&amp;eacute;trouchka. &lt;/em&gt;
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In the ballet &lt;em&gt;La&amp;nbsp;Sylphide&lt;/em&gt;, Filipp Styopin has already performed the role of the Youth. The complex role of James, which demands both virtuoso technique and convincing acting skills from the dancer, will be a significant step forwards for the soloist. 
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On &lt;a href="%content get_page_url(39081)%"&gt;27 February&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;em&gt;Year of France in Russia 2010&lt;/em&gt; programme opens with a performance at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre by French organist Olivier Vernet. The brilliant Vernet is organist of Monaco Cathedral, Art Director of the Monaco International Organ Festival and a prize-winner at prestigious international competitions. 
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It should be remembered that during this international cultural and humanitarian season in Russia and in France, the greatest in the history of diplomatic relations between the two countries, there will be over three hundred and fifty events in culture, economics, education and other areas. As part of the As part of the &lt;em&gt;Year of France in Russia&lt;/em&gt;, the Ballet de Lyon will be taking part in the X &lt;em&gt;Mariinsky&lt;/em&gt; International Ballet Festival, while at the XVIII &lt;em&gt;Stars of the White Nights&lt;/em&gt; festival there will be a &amp;ldquo;French programme&amp;rdquo; and throughout the year at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre French musicians will be performing, and there will be concerts of music by French composers. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
According to Nicolas Schibaeff, General Commissioner of the &lt;em&gt;Year of France in Russia 2010&lt;/em&gt;, from the French side &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;The Year of France in Russia 2010&lt;/em&gt; gives residents of both countries the unique opportunity to discover more about each other and appraise one another. Through the prism of this year, French people and Russians will discover more about themselves and find new ways to develop Franco-Russian relations. With regard to St Petersburg, this city holds a special place within this project; here, with the support of over fifty city institutions, there will be hundreds of official events.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
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Taking part in the press conference will be M. Nicolas Schibaeff, General Commissioner of the&lt;em&gt; Year of France in Russia 2010&lt;/em&gt; on the French side, official representatives of France&amp;rsquo;s Ministry  of Culture, members of the Organisational Committee of the &lt;em&gt;Year of France in Russia 2010&lt;/em&gt;, members of the St Petersburg City Government, the Vice-Mayor of Bordeaux, the Deputy Chairman of the D&amp;eacute;partement of Vend&amp;eacute;e, managers of various cultural institutions in the city and their French colleagues, the &lt;em&gt;Year&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/em&gt; economic partners and leading representatives of culture in St Petersburg. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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