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Friday 21 May 2010
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Hello, here are the most important events till the end of month that we’ve got to tell you about.

 
 

► Tchaikovsky @ White Nights
▼ In Ballet
▼ In Opera
▼ In Concert
► Orchestra on tour: Germany
► Enter our prize draw

  Tchaikovsky @ White Nights
 

Stars of the White Nights fesival kicks off tonight at both the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall along with the start of our sales campaign for the new season subscription series as well as the new Mariinsky Label Stravinsky release. As usual (sic!) the festival is going to be very intense. We look forward to performing many remarkable music events featuring our numerous company as well guest artists. Stay with us in order to be updated on what’s going on at the Mariinsky and keep an eye on our most exciting happenings. You are more than welcome to come and see our events this summer. Enjoy!

Our festival is shaped around (but certainly not limited to) the legacy of a few most important composers in the entire history of music. Over the next nine weeks we are going to explore operas and ballets, chamber and symphony concerts featring works by such prominent composers as Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, Wagner, Prokofiev, Chopin, Shchedrin — each of them invented his own style that stands out of the others and makes their music so unique to them.

In the first ten days of the White Nights we are exploring Tchaikovsky’s legacy through the range of his theatrical works. This series of ballets and operas forms the core of our repertoire for decades since they received their premieres in our theatre, most often directed by the composer himself. These performances put together in such a short period form a festival within a festival that gives a chance for everyone to either explore a wide range of Tchaikovsky’s works or simply enjoy these audience favourites on our historic stage.

 
 

The Sleeping Beauty, 1952

Alina Somova and Danila Korsuntsev

 Ballets, Mariinsky Theatre 
Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty
Choreography by Marius Petipa revised by Konstantin Segeyev (1952)
Saturday 22 May, 7:00PM
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Thursday 27 May, 7:00PM
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Tchaikovsky Swan Lake
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov revised by Konstantin Segeyev (1950)
Tuesday 25 May, 7:00PM
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Tuesday 1 June, 7:00PM
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Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker
Sets, costumes and production by Mikhail Shemyakin (2001)
Saturday 29 May, 4:00PM
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Saturday 29 May, 8:00PM
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Tchaikovsky Serenade
Tchaikovsky Theme and variations
Choreography by George Balanchine (1935, 1947)
Sunday 30 May, 7:00PM
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Queen of Spades, 1982

 Operas, Mariinsky Theatre 
Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades
Staged by Yuri Temirkanov (1982)
Wednesday 26 May, 7:00PM
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Tchaikovsky Iolanta
Staged by&nbso;Mariusz Trelinsky (2009)
Friday 28 May, 7:00PM
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Valery Gergiev

 Concerts, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Conducted by Valery Gergiev
Tchaikovsky Symphony 4
Wednesday 16 June, 10:00PM
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Tchaikovsky Symphony 5
Thursday 17 June, 10:00PM
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Tchaikovsky Symphony 6
Friday 18 June, 10:00PM
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  Orchestra on tour: Germany
 

Next week our Orchestra goes to Germany for two days to perform a pair of concerts. We shall visit two cities: Braunschweig and Dresden, participating in some of the finest spring music festivals at the heart of Europe. Valery Gergiev conducts.

In Dresden Valery Gergiev will receive the Glashütte Original Music Festival Prize 2010 awarded to him for his support of young gifted musicians. The Prize value is 25,000 euro and Maestro Gergiev has already announced that the money will go to the foundation of Tchaikovsky International Music Competition (Moscow), one of the most prestigious competitions in the world. Valery Gergiev is a head of the Competition committee.

On Wednesday, 26 May, we shall come back to St Petersburg where we shall join our colleagues to continue our intense Stars of the White Nights Festival.

 
 

Germany

Braunschweig, Stadthalle, Großer Saal, Leonhardplatz
Mon 24 May, 8:00PM
Wagner, Schumann, Tchaikovsky
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Dresden, Kulturpalast, Festsaal
Tue 25 May, 8:00PM
Wagner, Ravel, Tchaikovsky
Learn more

Our Opera and Orchesta on tour in Germany this summer
Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus
16…20 July
Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Liszt, Gubaidulina, Musorgsky
Wisbaden
21 July
Mahler
Hamburg
22 July
Shchedrin, Berlioz, Rachmaninov
Lübeck
23 July
Mahler

 
  Enter our prize draw
 

We regret to announce that our previously planned concerts in St Petersburg and on tour in Germany, starring Hélène Grimaud (our proposed Artist of the month this May) have to be cancelled by the soloist due to health reasons. We are extremely grateful to Alexei Volodin, Denis Matsuyev and Alena Baeva that they agreed to step in at so short notice and proposed to our patrons alternative programs on these dates.

This week we’re also starting a series of online quizzes for our e-newsletter subcribers. During the Stars of the White Nights Festival we shall publish questions in our weekly e-newsletters as well as in our online media resources. Send us your answers to the quiz listed below and if you answer all three questions correctly, your name will be put into our prize draw and you’ll get a chance of winning gifts including tickets to White Nights events, bookets, posters and concert programs personally signed by our guest artists, music CDs, books and various souvenirs of our theatre.

To enter the prize draw you need to send us your correct answers either by e-mail to marketing@mariinsky.ru, or by twitting to either of our twitter-accounts mariinskyru or mariinskyen (please quote your name and e-mail address so that we can contact you).

Our first quiz questions are focused on the three concerts on 23, 27 and 28 May. Best of luck!

 
 

Alexei Volodin
Alexei Volodin
Sunday 23 May, 12:00noon
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Denis Matsuyev
Denis Matsuyev
Thursday 27 May, 7:00PM
Learn more

 

Alena Baeva
Alena Bayeva
Friday 28 May, 7:00PM
Learn more

 
 

Question

Question 1
Ravel wrote about his First Piano Concerto that it has been inspired by the style of…
(a) Mozart and Saint-Saens
(b) Beethoven and Albenis
(c) Liszt and Satie

 
 

Question

Question 2
Denis Matsuev is a winner of Tchaikovsky Competion (Moscow). Which competion did he win?
(a) The Tenth
(b) The Eleventh
(c) The Twelfth

 
 

Question

Question 3
Alena Bayeva is a receipient of a scholarship from the foundation of…
(a) Denis Matsuyev
(b) Vladimir Spivakov
(c) Mstislav Rostropovich

 
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