14 February 2010, Sunday, 11:30

Concert Hall
37, Dekabristov Street

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Playbill Calendar

VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)

Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Premiere
L’Histoire du soldat
The Fable of the Fox, the Cock, the Tomcat and the Ram

Soloists: Dmitry Voropaev, Alexander Timchenko,
Sergei Romanov, Pavel Shmulevich

Conductor:  Mikhail Tatarnikov

Burlesques in song and dance
with the participation of the Demmeni Puppet Theatre

Artistes of the Demmeni Marionette Theatre:
Arkady Mirohin, Anna Mironova,
Irina Krivchionok, Olga Fyodorova
Narrator – Yuri Dormidontov

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Conductor: Mikhail Tatarnikov
Stage Director: Eduard Gayday
Set Designer: Alexander Alexeyev
Lighting Designer: Kamil Kutyev

Premiere of this production: 7 February 2010

 

  

The Fable of the Fox... with the subheading “a merry performance with singing and dancing” is a one-act amusement in “cheap print” Russian style in which Stravinsky once again turns to the traditions of jesters’ “laughing” theatre. The subject of Russian tales from Afanasiev’s folkloric collection, where the instructive story of human weaknesses takes on the form of an allegorical menagerie of beasts, gave the composer a mass of ways to instrument his extremely witty musical discoveries, as a result of which was the creation of one of the best comic masterpieces of the 20th century. The story of a fleeing soldier who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for a miraculous violin and a magic book is borrowed from the same collection.
Nadezhda Kulygina

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