In April and May the playbill of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is crammed with exciting events: premiere performances of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (21 and 23 April), Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty (26, 27 and 28 May and 2 and 4 June), performances by Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists, "Korean phenomenon" Seong-Jin Cho and concerts as part of the XVI Moscow Easter Festival.
On 21 and 23 the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will present a premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto staged by Irkin Gabitov (production transferred from the historic Mariinsky Theatre to Vladivostok). The first performances will mark the stage director's seventieth birthday. To close the season the production will be performed again on 1 June. Pavel Smelkov will be conducting.
In April and May the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will be one of the venues for the XVI Moscow Easter Festival directed by Valery Gergiev. Here on 18 April the Combined Chorus of the Metropolitan See will perform under Lyudmila Makarenko. On 2 and 4 May as part of the festival's symphony programme, at the Bolshoi Hall there will be concerts featuring the outstanding South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho. On 2 May he will present a recital programme, while on 4 May with the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre he will appear under the baton of Singaporean conductor Darrell Ang.
A key May event will be the grandiose premiere of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty (26, 27 and 28 May and 2 and 4 June), which will end the season at the Primorsky Stage. This colourful and vast production with classical choreography by Marius Petipa revised by Konstantin Sergeyev and sets and costumes after sketches by People's Artist of Russia Vyacheslav Okunev is being rehearsed in Vladivostok as past of the Russian Seasons programme and on the eve of the Year of Cultural Exchange between Russia and Japan. The performances will feature ballet dancers from Japan.
The intense repertoire playbill of the Primorsky Stage in April and May will present audiences with fafourite operas: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (1 May) and Bastien und Bastienne (23 April, 7 May and 4 June), Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata (14 April and 8 May) and Macbeth (16 April and 28 May) featuring Elena Stikhina for whom the role of Lady Macbeth will be a debut, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve (29 April and 19 May), Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (21 May) and Georges Bizet's Carmen (3 June).
The ballet company will be appearing for audiences in the Fear East in productions of Adolphe Adam's Giselle (15 April and 18 May) and Le Corsaire (7 May), Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (22 April and 12 May), evenings of classical and contemporary dance including The Firebird (13 April and 9 May) and recent premieres – one-act ballets by George Balanchine (14 May). Following performances of the ballet Carmen-Suite to music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Primorsky Stage will be dedicating its performances (30 April and 20 May) to mark fifty years since the ballet was created and eighty-five years since the birth of the great Russian composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin.
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