Stars of the White Nights Festival to Feature Guest Conductors from Germany, Spain and Poland

The Mariinsky Orchestra is to perform under the baton of guest conductors from Germany, Spain, and Poland on July 13, July 16, and July 18.

On July 13, at 19.00, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host a performance of one of the leading violinists of her generation – Alena Baeva and the Mariinsky Orchestra are to perform under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk, Polish conductor, Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. The programme includes Antonín Dvořák’s symphonic poem The Water Goblin, Witold Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major.

On July 16, at 20:00, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will welcome the first performance of the Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, who plays Ex Baron Feilitzsch Stradivarius violin (1734), and the Valencia-born conductor Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. Under the baton of Gimeno, the Mariinsky Orchestra is to perform Suite No. 2 from Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Claude Debussy’s three symphonic sketches La mer, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major.

The July 13 and July 16 concerts will be broadcast live on the websites mariinsky.tv and mariinsky.fm

The July 18 performance of Carl Orff’s scenic cantata Carmina Burana at the Mariinsky II will be conducted by the famous Justus Frantz, a Grammy and Bambi award-winning German conductor. The vocal parts will be performed by Anna Denisova (soprano), Stanislav Leontiev (tenor), and Vladislav Sulimsky (baritone).