The March playbill of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

260 years since the birth of Mozart, new names and a series of first subscriptions.

The first month of spring at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre begins with the celebratory concert Songs of Love (4 March). Pavel Smelkov will be conducting the Primorsky Stage’s Opera, Chorus and Orchestra in a performance of Johann Strauss’ Frühlingsstimmen and Wein, Weib und Gesang, Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder and Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesfreud and Liebesleid. The soloist is Alexander Abukhovich, the leader of the orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The programme of the concert also includes Russian romances and arias from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Mariinsky Theatre soloist Yekaterina Shimanovich will perform the title role in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca (5 March) and will also appear in the project Portrait of a Singer in an Interior (6 March).

One vivid event on the concert playbill comes with a performance by prize-winners at the XIV and XV Tchaikovsky International Competitions Sergei Redkin (piano) and Sergei Dogadin (violin) with the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of Pavel Smelkov (25 March). To mark two hundred and sixty years since the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart there will be performances of Piano Concerto No 20, Violin Concerto No 3 and Symphony No 40. The next day Sergei Dogadin and Sergei Redkin will perform in the Chamber Hall (26 March).

The project The Mariinsky for Children will continue to develop in Vladivostok: for younger audiences there will be The Young Theatre-Goers’ School (16 and 23 March) – interactive performances that aim to introduce children to musical theatre in all its variety. During the monthly series A Little Opera for Children there will be a premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s one-act singspiel Bastien und Bastienne (20 and 27 March), previously performed to great acclaim in St Petersburg.

The chamber hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is presenting an evening of Italian song, The Sun of Italy (12 March), and a concert of chamber music, Springtime Sonata (13 March).

March will see the first performances of the new subscriptions of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre – Visiting Tchaikovsky, Opera Classics, At the Mariinsky Theatre with All the Family, Favourite Ballet and Classical Ballet, which may be acquired with significant discounts at the theatre’s box-offices.

The playbill for the month also features the ballets The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (7 March), Giselle by Adolphe Adam (11 and 12 March), Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (18 March), The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky (26 March) and the operas La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (8 March), The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (13 March) and Carmen by Georges Bizet (19 and 20 March).