On 16 March at the Mariinsky II Valery Gergiev will be conducting Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, one of the largest works in the symphony repertoire, also known as the Symphony of a Thousand. The concert will feature the Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra as well as the Children's Chorus of St Petersburg TV and Radio. The solos will be performed by sopranos Viktoria Yastrebova, Anastasia Kalagina and Lyudmila Dudinova, mezzo-sopranos Yulia Matochkina and Zlata Bulycheva, tenor Sergei Semishkur, baritone Alexei Markov and bass Vladimir Feliauer.
From 17 to 26 March the Mariinsky-II will be staging Richard Wagner’s grandiose tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. The eve, Das Rheingold – the first part of the tetralogy – will be performed on 17 March. The role of Wotan will be sung by Alexei Tanovitsky, Loge by Mikhail Vekua, Alberich by Edem Umerov and Fricke by Ekaterina Semenchuk. In Die Walküre the next day, 18 March, Mlada Khudoley will appear as Sieglinde, Ekaterina Semenchuk will return as Fricke with Dmitry Voropaev as Siegmund and Olga Savova as Brünnhilde. In Siegfried on 25 March the title role will be performed by Mikhail Vekua with Vitaly Kovalev, one of the leading basses of the present, as Wotan and Andrei Popov as Mime. The tetralogy concludes with Götterdämmerung on 26 March, in which the lead roles will be performed by outstanding Wagnerian singers – soprano Larisa Gogolevskaya as Brünnhilde and Austrian tenor Andreas Schager as Siegfried. On all four evenings Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra.
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