February at the Mariinsky Theatre will be held under the aegis of Giuseppe Verdi – the playbill features seven of the composer’s works in the theatre’s current repertoire.
On 2 February the series of performances begins with the opera Don Carlo at the historic Mariinsky Theatre with a strong cast – Yevgeny Nikitin (Filippo II), Hovhannes Aivazian (Don Carlo), Vladislav Sulimsky (Rodrigo), Sergei Aleksashkin (the Grand Inquisitor), Viktoria Yastrebova (Elisabeth de Valois) and Zlata Bulycheva (Princess Eboli).
The key event of the month will be the premiere of the opera Simon Boccanegra (5 and 7 February at the Mariinsky-II) featuring world-acclaimed bass Ferruccio Furlanetto and lead Mariinsky Opera soloists. This is the first time that a production of this opera is being staged in St Petersburg. The transfer of the 2014 co-production of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa is being overseen by Andrea De Rosa. The first performances will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Another matinee performance of Simon Boccanegra has been announced for 20 February.
On 4 February at the Mariinsky-II there will be a performance of Verdi’s Requiem featuring Olga Borodina, Yuri Vorobiev, Yevgeny Akimov, Zhanna Dombrovskaya and the Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev.
On 27 February (at 15:00 and 19:00) at the historic Mariinsky Theatre there will be a performance of a staged version of the Requiem directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca.
The playbill for February at the Mariinsky-II also includes, on 12 February, Un ballo in maschera staged by Andrei Konchalovsky, which has been performed at the Mariinsky Theatre to great acclaim for fifteen years, on 16 February there will be a performance of the previous season’s last premiere of Claudia Solti’s production of La traviata with maestro Gergiev conducting and on 22 February comes Il trovatore with Alexei Markov (the Conte di Luna), Tatiana Serjan (Leonora), Anna Smirnova (Azucena) and Najmiddin Mavlyanov (Manrico).
At the end of the month, on 28 February at the historic Mariinsky Theatre there will be a performance of the opera Macbeth staged by British director David McVicar.
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