From 20 to 27 December the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will undertake their traditional tour to Baden-Baden (Germany).
Performances by the Mariinsky Theatre in Baden-Baden are now a long-standing tradition during the Christmas period. For several years now in December the ballet company and the orchestra have presented annual performances at the Festspielhaus, one of the greatest contemporary theatre and concert venues in Europe located in the town’s restored railway station, which also features a modern annex of light-coloured marble and glass. The Baden-Baden Festspielhaus is an example of the architectural blending of history and current trends, and the Mariinsky Theatre in selecting its tour programme traditionally combines classical and time-tested productions with new works that have been recently staged.
This year’s tour opens with The Little Humpbacked Horse. Rodion Shchedrin’s score will be presented to German audiences by maestro Gergiev who will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra on 20 and 21 December. The lead roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography will be performed by Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Alexei Timofeyev, Maxim Zyuzin, Vasily Tkachenko and Yaroslav Baibordin. The tour will continue with a series of classical ballet performances including the unfailingly popular Swan Lake and Le Corsaire. This year the Baden-Baden audiences will see Swan Lake with Viktoria Tereshkina partnered by Timur Askerov and Alina Somova partnered by Vladimir Shklyarov in the main roles. The playbill for Le Corsaire features Viktoria Tereshkina, Alina Somova, Anastasia Kolegova, Nadezhda Batoeva, Oxana Bondareva, Yevgeny Ivanchenko, Konstantin Zverev, Timur Askerov, Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov, Andrei Yermakov, Alexei Timofeyev, Maxim Zyuzin and David Zaleyev.
The performances will be conducted by Alexei Repnikov. The tour week concludes on 27 December with the traditional gala concert which will feature productions from last spring’s Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers – Ballet No 2 by Maxim Petrov, Clay by Vladimir Varnava and Second I by Xenia Zvereva as well as Schéhérazade with Oxana Skorik and Yevgeny Ivanchenko in the lead roles and various pas de deux popular with the public.
For details of the tour please go to: http://www.festspielhaus.de
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