On 10 September (20:00), the 2018/2019 season at the Mariinsky II will open with one of the most memorable premieres of the XXVI Stars of the White Nights festival – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar's Bride staged by Alexander Kuzin. Lead roles will be performed by Stanislav Trofimov (Vassily Sobakin), Angelina Akhmedova (Marfa), Alexei Markov (Grigory Gryaznoy), Mikhail Kolelishvili (Malyuta Skuratov), and Yulia Matochkina (Lyubasha). The performance will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.
That same day, a recital of Daniil Trifonov, one of the most popular pianists of his generation and a 2018 Grammy Award winner, will open a new season at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. The programme includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Andante favori and Piano Sonata No. 18, Robert Schumann’s Bunte Blätter and Presto passionato , and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8. On 11 September, the musician will also perform with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. To be performed are Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.
The historic stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will open its 236th season on 29 September with a performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895) and revised by Konstantin Sergeyev (1950). Lead roles will be performed by Ekaterina Kondaurova (Odette-Odile), Timur Askerov (Siegfried), and Andrei Yermakov (von Rothbart).
One of the first highlights of the new season is the Russian premiere of the Chinese composer Tang Jianping’s modern opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet after Boris Vasilyev’s novel of the same name. China’s largest music theatre, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), will perform the opera at the Mariinsky II (11 September and 12 September).
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