On 30 and 31 August Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra open the 2016-2017 season with a tour to the Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden. At the Berwaldhallen Concert Hall there will be performances of works by Sergei Prokofiev.
On 3 and 4 September the musicians will present a programme of works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky at the Grafenegg Music Festival (Austria) together with prize-winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Clara-Jumi Kang (violin) and George Li (piano). They will then depart for Rimini in Italy where they will perform with Alexandre Bouzlov (cello). The programme features works by Sergei Prokofiev and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
In the new season Valery Gergiev's touring plans also include the XXI Gergiev Festival, to be held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) between 8 and 11 September. This year the music forum will be dedicated to Sergei Prokofiev, the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of whose birth Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre will be celebrating throughout the world. During the festival Valery Gergiev will conduct the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Codarts Symphony Orchestra and Royal Conservatoire and the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Moreover, on 2 and 6 September in Luzern (Switzerland) and Berlin (Germany) Valery Gergiev will open the 2016-2017 season with the Münchner Philharmoniker. The opening of the season at the ensemble's home venue – the Gasteig in Munich – takes place on 14 September and forms the start of a two-week-long series of concerts by the Münchner Philharmoniker under the baton of Valery Gergiev in Munich.
It should be noted that the 234th season of the Mariinsky Theatre opens on 30 September at three venues. At the Concert Hall and the Mariinsky II there will be performances of works premiered last season – Valery Gergiev will conduct Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila staged by Yannis Kokkos (Mariinsky II, 19.00), while at the Concert Hall there will be a performance of Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Idiot staged by Alexei Stepanyuk (19.00). At the historic stage of the Mariinsky Theatre the programme of the first ballet evening of the new season will see Michel Fokine's choreographic miniatures Chopiniana, The Firebird and Scheherazade (19.30).
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