On 24, 25 and 26 March at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre there will come the first ballet premieres of the year – George Balanchine's one-act ballets Scotch Symphony, Serenade and Prodigal Son, as well as Apollo, the staging of which will mark one hundred and thirty-five years since the birth of Igor Stravinsky.
As part of the new project Holidays at the Mariinsky, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky will be inviting young audiences and their parents to opera and ballet performances including Christmas Eve by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (28 March at 19.00 and 29 March at 17.00), Giselle by Adolphe Adam (30 March at 17.00), Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (31 March at 19.00), The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1 April at 14.00 and 19.00) and The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (2 April at 14.00). The playbill for the Small Hall during the holidays will also see educational master-classes for children: "How is a ballet created?" (1 April at 17.00) and "How is an opera created?" (2 April at 12.00).
On 2 March in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata the role of Violetta Valéry will be performed by Mariinsky Theatre soloist Oxana Shilova, who appeared in the premiere of the opera in a production by Charles Roubaud, transferred from St Petersburg to Vladivostok in September 2015. Oxana Shilova will also give a recital with a programme of works by Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet, Charles Gounod, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi (Small Hall, 5 March). On 9 March the title role in Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (staged by Hans-Joachim Frey) will be performed by Yekaterina Shimanovich. The Mariinsky Theatre soloist has made several appearances at the Primorsky Stage as Floria Tosca and Fata Morgana as well as with chamber works by Russian and international classical composers. The opera playbill will be augmented by Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (4 March), Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (11 March), Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (17 March) and Georges Bizet's Carmen (19 March).
In its ballet performances, among those appearing at the Primorsky Stage in March will be rising South Korean ballet stars Sun-Woo Lee and Soo-Bin Lee. Recipient of the 1st prize at the Youth America Grand Prix international competition (New York, 2015) and 3rd prize at the International Ballet Competition in Varna (2016), Sun Woo Lee will perform the role of Conrad in the ballet Le Corsaire (3 March). And winner of the Vaganova-Prix competition (2016) Soo-Bin Lee, who made a highly successful debut at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in August 2016, will appear in the title role of the ballet Giselle on 30 March.
Also in the ballet playbill for March will be Adolphe Adam's Giselle (8 March), Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (10 марта), Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen-Suite (12 March), Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (18 March) and an evening of the ballet The Firebird (5 March).
In January, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre held a premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth, directed by David McVicar. The lead roles were performed by Maria Guleghina, Vladislav Sulimsky, Edem Umerov and Sergei Skorokhodov. The February premiere of Temur Chkheidze's production of the opera The Gambler was presented by Vladimir Galuzin. In the first performances of the opera in Vladivostok there were appearances by Mariinsky Theatre soloists Sergei Semishkur, Larisa Diadkova, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Natalia Timchenko, Nikolai Gassiev, Oleg Balashov, Yekaterina Solovyova and Andrei Serov.
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