From 24 February to 12 March the Mariinsky Orchestra will be appearing in cities in the USA, Chile and – for the first time – in Mexico and Cuba. The Mariinsky Ballet will be performing from 23 to 28 February in the USA (Washington and New York).
North America (Washington and New York)
On 23 February the American tour opens with the Mariinsky Ballet which will be appearing at the Kennedy Center in Washington for the fourteenth time. The programme for the current visit by the St Petersburg dancers features seven performances of the ballet Raymonda. The lead roles in Marius Petipa and Alexander Glazunov’s masterpiece will be performed by Oxana Skorik, Yekaterina Kondaurova and Anastasia Kolegova (Raymonda), Timur Askerov, Danila Korsuntsev and Yevgeny Ivanchenko (Jean de Brienne) and Konstantin Zverev and Yuri Smekalov (Abderakhman). The Mariinsky Ballet will be accompanied by the Kennedy Center Orchestra under Gavriel Heine. The performances will run until 28 February.
From 24 to 28 February the tour by the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will continue at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The programme will open with an evening marking one hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev. The Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev together with pianists Daniil Trifonov, George Li, Alexander Toradze, Sergei Redkin and Sergei Babayan will perform a marathon of all of the composer’s piano concerti. The tour will continue with a series of ballet evenings dedicated to the memory of Maya Plisetskaya. Mariinsky Theatre prima ballerinas Diana Vishneva and Ulyana Lopatkina together with Mariinsky Ballet soloists will present American audiences with Alberto Alonso’s Carmen-Suite Michel Fokine’s The Dying Swan and Carolyn Carlson’s Woman in a Room as well as miniatures and ballet scenes in which Plisetskaya dazzled.
Latin America (Mexico, Cuba and Chile)
When the performances in New York come to a close the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev will set out for a tour of Latin American countries.
From 1 to 3 March the orchestra will be performing at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Mexico). The first evening will feature Dmitry Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini and Symphony No 2. The second evening includes Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2 and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. The performance will feature the young British guest conductor Elim Chan, who made a successful debut at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in February this year, and soloist Behzod Abduraimov. The concert on 3 March will be dedicated to Sergei Prokofiev. The Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will be performing the First and Fifth Symphonies as well as the Sinfonia Concertante for Cello in E Minor. The soloist will be Ivan Karizna, a prize-winner at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Moreover, on 2 and 3 March young performers – prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition bass Dmitry Grigoriev and dancer and choreographer Vladimir Varnava – will be appearing at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico. The programmes of the concerts include arias from Russian operas, Russian romances and folk songs as well as original choreographic miniatures. The concerts by the young artistes in Mexico have been made possible thanks to the support of the Mariinsky Foundation of America.
On 4 March the orchestra will perform at one of the largest venues in the Mexican capital – the Auditorio Nacional, which accommodates eight thousand people. The programme includes Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, music from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and the 1812 Overture. The solo in the First Concerto will be performed by prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergei Redkin.
On 6 March the tour will continue in the capital of Cuba, where under the baton of Valery Gergiev the orchestra will perform at the Teatro Nacional in Havana, presenting programmes for both adults and children. These will feature Edvard Grieg's suite From Holberg's Time, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Sergei Prokofiev's First Symphony, Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings and Dmitry Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 1; the solo will be performed by Daniil Trifonov.
On 10 March musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra will conduct master-classes for young musicians in Chile. On 11 and 12 March the orchestra will appear three times at the Teatro del Lago (Frutillar, Chile). The programme for the matinee concert on 11 March includes Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf. The evening concert will feature bass Dmitry Grigoriev, a prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, who will perform the role of Gremin from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin and King Filippo’s aria from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlo. There will be a further performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf as well as Edvard Grieg’s suite From Holberg’s Time and the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. On the final evening of the tour on 12 March there will be a performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s First Symphony, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 featuring Behzod Abduraimov.
At this time Valery Gergiev will also be continuing a series of performances in North and South America with the Wiener Philharmoniker. The maestro will conduct the orchestra on three occasions at Carnegie Hall in New York (26–28 February). On 1 and 2 March the Wiener Philharmoniker under Valery Gergiev will be performing for the first time in history in Naples (Florida). Gergiev will subsequently conduct a further three concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Columbia and Brazil (5, 8 and 9 March).
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