Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will perform twice at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre on 1 May as part of the XVII Moscow Easter Festival.
The 2 pm concert features a broad range of works by Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, and Jean Sibelius to be performed by guest instrumentalists and the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre. Richard Strauss’ symphonic poem Don Quixote will be performed by Yuri Afonkin (viola) and David Geringas (cello), while the featured soloist for Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is Kristóf Baráti. Excerpts from Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande will be performed by Vladimir Moroz (Pelléas), Andrei Serov (Golaud), Oleg Sychov (Arkel), and Elena Vitman (Geneviève).
The soirée performance (7 pm) will feature one of the most prominent pianists of his generation – the Korean phenomenon Seong-Jin Cho – in concert with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. He will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20. The second part of the concert will see the performance of the excerpts from Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser. The vocal parts will be sung by Oleg Videman (Heinrich Tannhäuser), Irina Churilova (Elisabeth), and Pavel Yankovsky (Wolfram von Eschenbach).
Then Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will go to Moscow, where they will give two concerts the very next day: at the Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the participation of Kristóf Baráti and Seong-Jin Cho (2 May, 1 pm) and at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall with the participation of Denis Matsuev (2 May, 7 pm).
Just a quick reminder: the XVII Moscow Easter Festival runs from 8 April to 9 May 2018 with the support of the Moscow Government, the Russian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Defense and the blessing of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The festival will close with a gala concert of the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev at Poklonnaya Gora on Victory Day, 9 May.
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