The XXVII Stars of the White Nights festival runs from 22 Mayto 21 July 2019 at all of the venues of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. New festival events on the playbill include opera productions featuring Ferruccio Furlanetto, Olga Borodina, Elene Stikhina, a performance of the Bolshoi Theatre’s Principal Dancer Olga Smirnova, and a musical tribute to Hector Berlioz marking 150 years since his death.
The concert programme of the festival was added to with three soirée performances dedicated to Hector Berlioz. 26 Maywill see a concert performance of the dramatic legend La Damnation de Faust after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust. Lead roles will be performed by Alexander Mikhailov (Faust), Yulia Matochkina (Marguerite), and Mikhail Petrenko (Méphistophélès). These soloists will also perform vocal parts in the symphonie dramatique Roméo et Juliette based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy on 26 June. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev. Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique will be performed under the baton of Christian Knapp on 11 June. The programme also includes Maurice Ravel’s La Valse and vocal cycle Shéhérazade. Featured soloist is Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano).
Renowned Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto will appear at the festival three times. On 15 June, he will perform as Philip II in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo under the baton of Valery Gergiev; on 24 June, he will appear in the title role in Jules Massenet’s Don Quichotte; and on 2 July, Furlanetto is scheduled to appear in a recital marking forty-five years of his stage career at the Concert Hall. The Don Carlo performance on 15 June will also feature Yulia Matochkina (Princess Eboli), Migran Agadzhanyan (Don Carlo), and Roman Burdenko (Rodrigo). Olga Borodina, People’s Artist of Russia, will appear in one of her signature roles – as Marfa in Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina (28 May, the Mariinsky II). Other lead roles will be performed by Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Ivan Khovansky), Yevgeny Akimov (Prince Andrei Khovansky), Oleg Videman (Prince Vasily Golitzin), Roman Burdenko (Shaklovity), and Vladimir Vaneyev (Dosifei). Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Moreover, Olga Borodina will also appear in a recital at the festival (8 June, the Concert Hall). The opera playbill also includes Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin featuring Vladislav Kupriyanov in the title role, Elena Stikhina (Tatyana), Yevgeny Akhmedov (Lensky), and Irina Shishkova (Olga) (11 June, the Mariinsky Theatre).
The ballet playbill will be graced by the likes of Olga Smirnova, the Bolshoi Theatre’s Principal Dancer, who will appear in Alberto Alonso’s Carmen Suite (26 May, the Mariinsky Theatre). Andrei Yermakov (José) and Yevgeny Ivanchenko (Torero) will join her on stage. Maxim Petrov’s Le Divertissement du roi will be presented in the second part. On 7 June, Alina Somova (Medora), Timur Askerov (Conrad), and Kimin Kim (Ali) will appear in Le Corsaire. The production will also be shown on 6 June. Renata Shakirova (Syuimbike), Alexei Timofeyev (Ali-Batyr), and Ramanbek Beishenaliev (Shurale) will appear in lead roles in Leonid Yakobson’s Shurale on 24 May. The historic stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will traditionally host graduation performances of students of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet during the festival (10 June, 12 June, and 16 June).
The playbill of the Stars of the White Nights festival for younger audiences will feature a performance from the cycle of the Mariinsky Theatre’s theatrical concerts for younger spectators Russian Fairy Tales (2 June, the Concert Hall). The spectators will have a chance to learn about the music of Anatoly Lyadov, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The narrator, Irina Sokolova, People’s Artist of Russia, and young artistes of the Mariinsky Theatre will talk about various music tricks used by the composers when writing the music.
The chamber soirée programme of the festival includes a late-night concert of the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble under the baton of violinist and conductor Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, Principal Concert Master of the Munich Philharmonic, Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble (29 May) and a concert of Finnish cellist Martti Rousi, teacher at the Sibelius Academy, and pianist Andrei Telkov, who will perform works by Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, and Sergei Rachmaninoff (28 May).
This year’s programme of the XXVII Stars of the White Nights festival the will be announced weekly, several events at a time.
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