The Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour to Europe under the baton of maestro Gergiev opens with the concert A Portrait of Stravinsky, marking one century since the premiere of Le Sacre du printemps, on 5 April in Monte Carlo as part of the international festival Printemps des Arts. The concert will be held at one of the Côte d’Azur’s great cultural centres – the Auditorium Rainier III, a grandiose and comfortable pavilion (fifty-eight metres in diameter) seating one thousand people and supported by four masts close to the business district of Fontvieille. The concert programme includes the famous triad of Igor Stravinsky’s Russian ballets Pétrouchka, The Fire Bird and Le Sacre du printemps.
On 6 April the Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour will continue with a performance at the Easter Festival at the Grand Théâtre in Aix-en-Provence. The concert programme includes two very different symphonic masterpieces that are seen as “calling cards” of two key figures in 20th century French and Russian music − Henri Dutilleux’ Métaboles and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.
The Italian leg of the tour kicks off with a concert in Turin on 8 April at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli. This relatively new concert venue, which has already won acclaim and renown, seats two thousand people; it was constructed on the former site of a Fiat car factory and named in honour of its founder and Honorary President. This time Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra in a programme of Russian and Italian works – the overture from the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, the two hundredth anniversary of whose birth is being widely celebrated this year in the music world, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto (Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performing the solo) and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.
On 10 April at the Lugano Festival in Switzerland, the Congress Palace will host the Mariinsky Orchestra under maestro Gergiev in a performance of the overture from the opera La forza del destino by Verdi and the introduction to Act I of the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, the anniversary of whose birth is also being celebrated this year. The concert playbill also includes Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme (Alexandre Bouzlov performing the cello solo) and Fourth Symphony.
The same programme will be repeated the next day, 11 April, at the renowned Teatro alla Scala in Milan at a charitable concert in aid of the Italian Red Cross.
The Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour comes to a close on 12 April at the Concert Hall of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. The programme for the final concert includes the overture from Verdi’s opera La forza del destino, the introduction to Act I of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with Alexandre Bouzlov performing the cello solo and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony.
The Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour under the baton of Valery Gergiev to cities in Monaco, France, Italy and Switzerland runs from 5 to 12 April and will pay tribute to the most important music anniversaries of the current year.
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