11 February 2010, Thursday, 19:00

Mariinsky Theatre
1 Theatre Square

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Playbill Calendar
VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)

Chopiniana. Le Carnaval. Pétrouchka

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine

Cast

CHOPINIANA

Daria Vasnetsova, Elena Yevseyeva, Daria Pavlenko, Alexander Parish 		 

LE CARNAVAL

Columbine: Nadezhda Batoeva
Harlequin: Filipp Stepin		 

PETROUCHKA

Petrushka: Andrei Batalov
The Ballerina: Yelizaveta Cheprasova
The Moor: Ruben Bobovnikov
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest
 Conductor: Mikhail Tatarnikov
 Conductor: Mikhail Tatarnikov
CHOPINIANA

choreographic composition in one act
Music by Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated: Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1908)
Scenario by Michel Fokine
Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)
Set design based on original sketches by Orest Allegri

World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time: 30 minutes

  CARNAVAL

pantomime ballet in one act
Music by Robert Schumann (Le Carnaval, Op. 9, orchestrated by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. Lyadov, A. Glazunov, N. Cherepnin, A. Arensky)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Set and Costume design by Léon Bakst
The revival team:
Choreography staged: Sergei Vikharev
Sets reproduced: Mikhail Shishliannikov
Lighting: Alexander Naumov and Mikhail Shishliannikov
Costumes reproduced: Tatiana Noginova

Running time: 30 minutes

 

PETROUCHKA Premiere

burlesque in four scenes

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1911)
Libretto by Alexandre Benois
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Staging by Gary Chryst
Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov
Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich
Coach: Igor Petrov

World premiere: 13 June 1911, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Premiere of this production: 6 February 2010, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time: 40 minutes

 

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VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)
7 – 14 February 2010

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 2 Sep 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 4 October will now take place on 1 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid

On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies