From 1 January 2016 the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vladivostok will acquire the status of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. For the January playbill and to acquire tickets please go to the website www.prim.mariinsky.ru and theatre box-offices.
The management of the Primorsky Stage is run by the Board of the Mariinsky Theatre. Its Artistic Director is Valery Gergiev. Larisa Diadkova, a Mariinsky Theatre soloist and People’s Artist of Russia, is working with the opera company. The Primorsky company plans to expand: there will be auditions for the first competition for the opera company, while competitions are planned for the ballet company, chorus and orchestra as well as the hiring of various top-flight technical specialists.
The January playbill for the theatre’s Great Hall with one thousand three hundred and ninety seats features Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker (2-5, 7-9 and 16-17 January), the concert A Christmas Eve Tale (6 January) and the Grand Christmas Concert project together with the Primorsky-Vladivostok Diocese (12 January). On 27 January, to mark 115 years since the death of Giuseppe Verdi, at the Great Hall there will be a performance of La traviata, one of the composer’s most famous works, staged by Charles Roubaud. On 28 January patrons will be able to hear Verdi’s Requiem for the first time.
The January playbill also includes the opera Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky (10 and 31), the opera The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky (14), the opera Carmen by Bizet (24), the opera Tosca by Puccini (21) and the ballets Giselle by Adam (15, 22 and 23) and Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (30 and 31).
The theatre also plans to expand its genre framework to include film scores, musicals and jazz.
In summer at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be the major I International Far East Festival.
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