The Mariinsky Theatre is dedicating the XXV Stars of the White Nights music festival to Igor Stravinsky’s 135th anniversary. The festival programme is abundant with the composer’s ballets and symphony works, features organ arrangements of his music performed in concert and the premiere of L'Histoire du soldat with the artistes of the Children's Studio of the Mariinsky Theatre. The foyer of the Mariinsky II is hosting the exhibition Igor Stravinsky. The Mariinsky Theatre. Marking 135 Years Since the Birth of the Composer.
The opening concert of the XXV Stars of the White Nights music festival is also a tribute to Stravinsky’s anniversary. It includes Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in C, which has already been performed multiple times at the XVI Moscow Easter Festival this year, Maurice Ravel’s Boléro and La Valse, as well as the Russian premiere of Daniil Trifonov’s Piano Concerto № 1 in E flat minor. The Mariinsky Orchestra will perform under the baton of Valery Gergiev with the soloist Daniil Trifonov (May 26, 20.00, the Mariinsky II).
On June 17, the composer's birthday, the Mariinsky Theatre's stage venues will be hosting only his music: at the historic stage there will be a performance of The Firebird (16.00) and an evening of ballets to music by Igor Stravinsky (20.00), at the Concert Hall there will be a performance of L'Histoire du soldat with artistes of the Children's Studio of the Mariinsky Theatre (15.00), as well as an expansive symphony music programme under the baton of Valery Gergiev (20.00). On 18 June, Leonid Karev will perform organ arrangements of works by Igor Stravinsky at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. The programme also includes the performances of Robert Schumann’s and Johann Sebastian Bach’s music works.
The Mariinsky II hosts an exhibition to mark Igor Stravinsky’s anniversary. It is dedicated to the history of the productions of his works at the Kirov/Mariinsky Theatre. The composer’s life is closely linked with the Mariinsky Theatre as his father, Fyodor I. Stravinsky, had been a great success at the Mariinsky for a quarter of a century. The exhibition revisits the theatre’s own collection of photographs, archival documents, and stage costumes (most of which are still in use today). Among the exhibits are costumes from the ballets Le Sacre du printemps and Pétrouchka designed by Nicholas Roerich and Alexander Benois. The plasma displays will show the clips from modern theatre productions, as well as unique photographs from the family archives of the composer’s descendants, which were graciously provided for the exhibition by the Igor Stravinsky Foundation.
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