| The Mariinsky Theatre’s touring schedule continues with a major visit by the theatre’s opera company and orchestra to towns and cities in Spain between 10 and 20 January. Key events of the tour to Spain are to include a concert performance of the opera Iolanta at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) with Anna Netrebko in the title role as well as the world premiere of Nino Díaz’ Second Clarinet Concerto. | |||||
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On 10 and 13 January the Mariinsky Opera Company under Valery Gergiev will be presenting Spanish audiences with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s final opera Iolanta, which is rarely performed outside Russia. The two concert performances of the opera will be given at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, one of the most luxuriant and important opera houses in the world and a major centre for opera in Spain. The role of Iolanta will be performed by Anna Netrebko, and her appearance marks the singer’s debut at this renowned theatre which has witnessed performances by Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Fyodor Chaliapin. Engaged in other roles in the opera are leading Mariinsky Theatre soloists, young and established alike, who have won international acclaim, among them Sergei Skorokhodov, Alexander Gergalov, Sergei Aleksashkin, Edem Umerov, Andrei Zorin, Yuri Vorobiev, Eleonora Vindau, Anna Kiknadze and Natalia Yevstafieva. During the Tchaikovsky Festival in Barcelona, the Mariinsky Theatre will also be presenting a programme of instrumental works by the Russian composer. On 11 January at the famed L’Auditori hall the Mariinsky Orchestra under maestro Gergiev will be performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and First Piano Concerto. In the concerto, the piano solo will be performed by outstanding Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats, a prize-winner at the prestigious International Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud Competition who trained at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Rudolf Kerer) and subsequently at the Vienna Academy of Music under Paul Badura-Skoda. On12 January the Mariinsky Orchestra will be appearing at the Auditori di Gerona Sala Monsalvatge, the programme to include Carl Maria von Weber’s overture Oberon, Johannes Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Jorge Luis Prats will be performing again as the soloist in the Brahms concerto. On 14 January the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will be performing at the Sala Sinfónica in the Spanish capital. The programme for the concert includes the Introduction to Act I of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The solo in the Rachmaninoff concerto will be performed by Denis Matsuev. On 15 January at the Auditorio De La Diputación concert hall in Alicante the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing the Introduction to Act I of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto and Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique. At the Teatro Principal Antzokia, the most important theatre of Vitoria, on 16 January there will be a rendition of Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, the solo to be performed by Enrique Bagaria, a Spanish pianist from Barcelona. A prize-winner at numerous international competitions, Bagaria studied the piano under Stanislav Pochekin and Dmitry Bashkirov. On 17 January at the Palace of Congresses in Oviedo the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Fortieth Symphony, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. The cello solo in Variations on a Rococo Theme will be performed by the talented young German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, who at the International Mstislav Rostropovich Cello Competition in 2005 won the Grand Prix as well as two special prizes (making her the first person ever to do so in the history of the competition). On 19 January Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Auditorio de Tenerife concert hall as part of the XXIX Canary Islands Music Festival in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The programme includes Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto (soloist: Alexei Volodin), Dmitry Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony and the Second Clarinet Concerto of Nino Díaz, a Spanish composer and native of the Canary Islands (the solo will be performed by Díaz’ compatriot, the brilliant young clarinettist Cristo Barrios). The Clarinet Concerto was commissioned from the composer by the festival, and this performance marks the work’s world premiere. On 20 January the same programme will be performed at the Concert Hall in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. | ||||
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