XX Music Festival Stars of the White Nights
25 May – 15 July 2012

25
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

20:00

Opening of the XX Music Festival Stars of the White Nights

Yevgeny Nikitin in the opera

Boris Godunov

opera in seven scenes (1869 version)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

26
May
Saturday
Concert Hall

17:00

Opening of the XX Music Festial Stars of the White Nights

Featuring Yevgeny Mironov and Chulpan Khamatova

Rubinstein. Musorgsky. Honegger. Prokofiev

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

20:00

Boris Godunov

opera in seven scenes (1869 version)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

27
May
Sunday
Concert Hall

19:00

Aida

opera in four acts

Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Jewels

ballet in three parts

28
May
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev in the ballet

Swan Lake

fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)

Concert Hall

19:00

Aida

opera in four acts

29
May
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Eugene Onegin

lyric opera in three acts, seven scenes

Concert Hall

20:00

An evening of organ music

Performed by Thierry Escaich

30
May
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

The Sleeping Beauty

ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and an apotheosis

Concert Hall

20:00

Berlioz. Mozart. Ravel

Soloist: Markus Schirmer  (piano)
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

31
May
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

18:00

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Stars of the White Nights festival

Olga Borodina, Vladimir Galouzine and Yevgeny Nikitin in the opera

Khovanshchina

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

20:00

The Philharmonics

Fascination Dance

1
June
Friday
Concert Hall

18:00

Les Troyens

epic opera duologue (in concert)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

The Nutcracker

ballet in two acts

2
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

14:00

The Nutcracker

ballet in two acts

Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

The Nutcracker

ballet in two acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Opening of the V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons

Musorgsky. Shostakovich. Raskatov. Escaich. Dutilleux

Soloists: Thierry Escaich (organ), Yekaterina Goncharova (soprano), Sergei Semishkur (tenor)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

3
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Vladimir Galouzine and Yevgeny Nikitin in the opera

The Queen of Spades

opera in three acts, seven scenes
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

20:00

V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons

Stairway to Heaven
Wagner. Silvestrov. Kancheli. Raskatov. Knaifel

Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andres Mustonen
Soloist: Oleg Sychov (bass)

4
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Olga Borodina and Yevgeny Nikitin in the concert

Verdi. Requiem

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

20:00

V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons

Utopia. Scriabin plus…
Andrei Korobeinikov recital (piano)

5
June
Tuesday
Jaani Kirik concert hall

20:00

V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons at the Jaani Kirik Estonian church

Americana
Cage. Babbitt. Helps. Davidovsky. Feldman. Seeger. Stravinsky. Sessions. Wuorinen

Soloists: Alan Feinberg (piano), Aaron Boyd (violin), Jesse Mills (violin), Nicholas Cords (viola), Fred Sherry (cello)

Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Carl Orff. Carmina Burana

Stage cantata
Principal Chorus Master and Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

Concert Hall

20:00

Marking two hundred and ten years of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society

Lyadov. Rachmaninoff. Gubaidulina. Bartók

Soloists: Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Geir Draugsvoll (bayan)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

6
June
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ballet in two act

Jaani Kirik concert hall

20:00

V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons at the Jaani Kirik Estonian church

Bach plus… The Three Celli
Bach. Raskatov. Vasks. Knaifel. Ligeti

Soloists: Sergei Roldugin (cello), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ivan Monighetti (cello), Gavriel Lipkind (cello), Alexander Raskatov (piano)

Concert Hall

20:00

Lyadov. Scriabin. Shostakovich

Soloist: Igor Tchetuev (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

7
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ballet in two act

Concert Hall

20:00

Close of the V Festival of Contemporary Music New Horizons

Three celli plus…
Lutosławski. Tüür. Korndorf. Raskatov. Tishchenko

Soloists: Gavriel Lipkind (cello), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ivan Monighetti (cello)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

8
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

Pelléas et Mélisande

lyric drama in five acts
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

9
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Carmen Suite. Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. Ballet Imperial

one act ballets

Concert Hall

20:00

Lyadov. Prokofiev. Shostakovich

Soloist: Nikita Abrosimov (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

10
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

12:00

La Bayadère

ballet in three acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Otello

opera in four acts
(concert performance)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

11
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Les contes d’Hoffmann

opéra fantastique in five acts
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

12
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Le nozze di Figaro

opera buffa in four acts

13
June
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Le Parc

ballet in three acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Brahms

Soloist: Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

14
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Anna Netrebko gala concert

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

19:00

Divertissement. Grand pas from ballet Paquita

one act ballets

15
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Carmen

opera in four acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Brahms

Soloist: Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

16
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

11:30

Marking one century since the birth of Natalia Dudinskaya

Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Aida

opera in four acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Glazunov. Shostakovich

Soloist: Daniil Trifonov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

17
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

11:30

Marking one century since the birth of Natalia Dudinskaya

Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Giselle

fantasy ballet in two acts

18
June
Monday
Concert Hall

20:00

Hélène Grimaud recital (piano)

19
June
Tuesday
Concert Hall

20:00

Berlioz. Prokofiev. Messiaen

Soloist: Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

20
June
Wednesday
Concert Hall

20:00

Denis Matsuev and his friends

Rachmaninoff. Bartók. Shostakovich

Soloists: Sergei Krylov (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Julia Deyneka  (viola), Alexander Buzlov (cello), Denis Matsuev (piano)

Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

21:00

Verdi. Requiem


Conductor: Valery Gergiev

21
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

Verdi. Requiem


Concert Hall

20:00

Brahms

Soloists: Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

22
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

Verdi. Requiem


Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

22:00

Montblanc New Voices

Massenet. Liszt. Richard Strauss

Soloists: Viktoria Yastrebova (soprano), Andrey Serov (bass-baritone), Denis Matsuev (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

23
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

12:00

Marking one century since the birth of Natalia Dudinskaya

Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

Swan Lake

fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)

24
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Ildar Abdrazakov in the opera

Attila

dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

25
June
Monday
Concert Hall

20:00

Vivaldi-Glennie. Másson. Veldhuis. Stravinsky

Soloist: Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

26
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

19:00

Boris Godunov

opera in seven scenes (1869 version)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

20:00

Mozart. Turner. Tchaikovsky

Soloists: musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Munich Philharmoniker and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

27
June
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

An evening of ballet with Ulyana Lopatkina

Grand pas from ballet Paquita. The Firebird

one act ballets

Концертный зал

20:00

The Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Verdi. Rachmaninoff. Berlioz

Soloist: Yuja Wang (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

28
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

18:00

Marking the jubilees of Larisa Diadkova and Sergei Aleksashkin, People’s Artists of Russia

Khovanshchina

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall

20:00

The Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Ambrosini. Beethoven. Respighi. Casella

Soloist: Rafał Blechacz (piano)
Conductor: Fabio Luisi

29
June
Friday
Concert Hall

20:00

Brahms

Soloist: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

30
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Anna Karenina

ballet in two acts after the novel by Lev Tolstoy

Concert Hall

20:00

Mozart. Johann and Josef Strauss

Soloist and Conductor: Rainer Honeck (violin)

1
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Prince Igor

opera in two acts with a prologue

Concert Hall

19:00

Vasily Gerello recital (baritone)

2
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (premiere). Études

one act ballets

3
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

La traviata

opera in three acts, four scenes

Concert Hall

20:00

Alice Sara Ott recital (piano)

4
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Spartacus

ballet in three acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Christian Blackshaw recital

All of Mozart’s piano sonatas. First evening

5
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Swan Lake

fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)

Concert Hall

20:00

Christian Blackshaw recital

All of Mozart’s piano sonatas. Second evening

6
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Madama Butterfly

japanese tragedy in three acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Christian Blackshaw recital

All of Mozart’s piano sonatas. Third evening

7
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Le Corsaire

ballet in three acts with a prologue and epilogue

Concert Hall

19:00

Aida

opera in four acts

8
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

La Bayadère

ballet in three acts

Concert Hall

20:00

Tchaikovsky. Shostakovich

Soloist: Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

9
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Maria Guleghina and Ferruccio Furlanetto in the opera

Attila

dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

10
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Diana Vishneva in the ballet

Romeo and Juliet

ballet in three acts (thirteen scenes)

Concert Hall

20:00

Nobuyuki Tsujii recital (piano)

11
July
Wednesday
Concert Hall

20:00

Thomas Trotter recital (organ)

12
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre

19:00

Vladimir Galouzine in the opera

Turandot

lyric drama in three acts and five scenes

Concert Hall

20:00

Schubert. Brahms. Franck

Soloists: Pavel Gomziakov (cello), Eldar Nebolsin (piano)

13
July
Friday
Concert Hall

19:00

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

opera in three acts

Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

20:00

Le Sacre du printemps (premiere of the revival)
The Firebird

one act ballets

14
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre

PREMIERE

14:00

Le Sacre du printemps (premiere of the revival)
The Firebird

one act ballets

Concert Hall

19:00

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

opera in three acts

15
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre

20:00

End of the XX Music Festival Stars of the White Nights
Maria Guleghina and Vladimir Galouzine in the opera

Tosca

opera in three acts



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