18.04.2019

Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre to Present an Extensive Programme at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow

In April and May, the Mariinsky Theatre is to present an extensive programme at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow: operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to mark 175 years since the birth of the composer, the Moscow premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s Commemoration Mass dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya, ballet productions by talented young choreographers, as well as symphony music and chamber programmes.

The Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow will host a performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s rarely performed opera Mlada (concert version) to help mark 175 years since the birth of the composer. The concert will feature the Mariinsky Theatre soloists, the Mariinsky Chorus, and the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev and will take place on 23 April. Lead roles will be performed by Anastasia Schegoleva (Voyslava), Sergei Skorokhodov (Yaromir), Vadim Kravets (Mstivoy), Vladislav Kupriyanov (High Priest of Radegast), Yekaterina Sergeyeva (Lumir), and Anna Kiknadze (Morena).

Another highlight performance to mark 175 years since the birth of Rimsky-Korsakov is the production of The Tsar’s Bride of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok to be presented on 9 May. Vyacheslav Starodubtsev’s production (set and costumes design by Pyotr Okunev, video design by Vadim Dulenko) will have its Moscow premiere. The on-tour performance will feature soloists and the Mariinsky Chorus of the Primorsky Stage, while the Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The Mariinsky Chorus will perform Rodion Shchedrin’s Commemoration Mass for chorus a cappella in Moscow for the first time on 12 May. The world premiere took place at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in February 2019. The composer’s new work is dedicated to his late wife, the great ballerina: To Maya Plisetskaya – Memory Eternal. The soirée concert programme also includes Rodion Shchedrin’s Poetoria to lyrics by Andrei Voznesensky and Claude Debussy’s Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. Featured vocalists are the soloists of the Mariinsky Opera. Sergey Bezrukov, People’s Artist of Russia, will appear as narrator in Poetoria. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The concert schedule of the Mariinsky Theatre at the Zaryadye Concert Hall also includes a series of ballet soirées. To be performed is Ilya Zhivoi’s The Four Seasons to music by Max Richter (based on the music by Antonio Vivaldi) on 2 May and 3 May, the best ballets of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers (the theatre’s annual project aimed at discovering new talents and exploring new ideas), and ballets created by the participants of the Creative Workshop outside of the project framework on 6 May and 7 May. On 30 May, the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble will perform 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.

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