In the lead up to Christmas and New Year there will be a premiere of a new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy-tale opera Christmas Eve at the historic Mariinsky Theatre; previously, it was performed at the Concert Hall.
Moving the opera to the old theatre will give new stage life to this already popular work which was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre one hundred and twenty years ago. Stage Director Olga Malikova is convinced that “the demonic forces and human flaws that Gogol personifies in his characters is nothing other than the evil that is present in all of us and which forces us to do ill-conceived, at times silly and depraved things” and that love can overcome the power of evil and produce wonders, and so the residents of the village of Dikanka will tell audiences a beautiful story about a Christmas of love.
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