| From 4 to 10 December Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre will be undertaking a major tour of Russia in terms of its geographic scale. | |||||
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During the week-long tour of Russian towns and cities the Mariinsky Theatre will be travelling several thousand kilometres; the tour will take the performers from the Central Volga River Basin to Western Siberia. The tour will open with concerts in Samara at the music festival Dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. This annual festival, founded on the initiative of Valery Gergiev and the Samara Regional Government in memory of the great Russian cellist and conductor, is being held this year for the sixth time. There will be three festival concerts on 4 and 5 December at the Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
The playbill for the first day of the festival features Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta, to be performed in concert. The lead roles will be performed by Mariinsky Opera soloists Yekaterina Goncharova, Kira Loginova, Elena Vitman, Anna Kiknadze, Dmitry Voropaev, Andrei Zorin, Alexei Markov, Oleg Sychov and Vladimir Felyauer as well as Roman Burdenko, a lead baritone of the Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The performance will feature the chorus of the Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Principal Chorus Master – Valeria Navrotskaya). Valery Gergiev will be conducting. On 5 December Valery Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Orchestra in two concerts, one of them a charity fundraising event. The programme for the second day of the festival includes works by Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich and features the outstanding musicians Alena Baeva (violin) and Alexander Toradze (piano). On 6 December the Mariinsky Orchestra will appear at the Kemerovo State Regional Philharmonic. The programme for the evening comprises works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Tchaikovsky; it features pianist Alexander Toradze who will be performing the solo in Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. Valery Gergiev will be conducting. There will be a “debut” performance by the Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of Valery Gergiev on 9 December in Tomsk; this will be the St Petersburg theatre’s first tour to that city. The concert is to be held at the Great Concert Hall of the Tomsk State Regional Philharmonic. On 10 December the Mariinsky will present two programmes at the Yugra-Klassik concert and theatre complex in Khanty-Mansiysk. At 15:00 there will be a charity fundraising concert entitled An Offering to Yugra with a programme of works by Sergei Prokofiev. In the evening the same day there will be a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to mark the anniversary of the founding of the district. The concert will feature leading Mariinsky Opera soloists Viktoria Yastrebova (soprano), Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano), Sergei Semishkur (tenor) and Mikhail Petrenko (bass); Valery Gergiev will be conducting. The performance of the symphony will also include the United Chorus of Yugra; the Principal Chorus Master will be Andrei Petrenko. | ||||
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