In March the Mariinsky Theatre will be focussing on the personality and the music of Modest Petrovich Musorgsky, one of the most vivid, unusual and powerful figures in Russian music. Throughout the month, all of the theatre’s venues will see performances of all of Musorgsky’s operas (either productions or in concert), his song cycles, romances and symphony music. At present, the Mariinsky Theatre is the only theatre that performs concert and stage versions of all of the composer’s operas (including different versions).
All of the theatre’s venues – the Concert Hall, historic theatre, new theatre and chamber halls – will be used during the monograph festival marking one hundred and seventy-five years since the birth of Modest Musorgsky.
With regard to repertoire, the Mariinsky Theatre is making active use of the chamber halls of the new theatre – previously accessible only for rehearsals – for performances of concerts, lectures and film-screenings. Each of the chamber halls has already been named after an outstanding Russian composer whose music is linked with our theatre: Modest Musorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Rodion Shchedrin.
As part of the Musorgsky Festival, on 23 March there will be a marathon of concerts in all of the chamber halls of the Mariinsky-II.
The marathon begins at 15:00 with a concert in the Prokofiev Hall (Lower Choral Hall), continuing in the Stravinsky Hall (Amphitheatre Auditorium, 16:00) and the Shchedrin Hall (17:00) and concluding with a concert in the Musorgsky Hall (Upper Choral Hall, 18:00).
Arias and romances by Modest Musorgsky will be performed by soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers.
We look forward to seeing journalists and TV groups to promote A Day with Musorgsky.
Accreditation via the theatre’s press service must take place no later than 21 March.
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