From 31 January to 2 February Munich will play host to Valery Gergiev’s MPHIL 360 Degrees festival. This year the theme of the forum, which combines various art forms, is Paris of the 1920s. The intense programme features performances by the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Kammerorchester of the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Odeon Jugendsinfonieorchester and prize-winners of the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition. The Mariinsky Ballet will be presenting Vladimir Varnava’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé and an evening of modern dance, which will include works by young choreographers.
Vladimir Varnava’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé to music by Maurice Ravel (the premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre took place in the 2019-20 season) has been selected for the opening of the festival, the ballet to be performed by young soloists of the company and the Münchner Philharmoniker under the baton of Valery Gergiev. This first part of the concert features Berg's cycle Seven Early Songs performed by the soprano Anja Harteros. On 31 January at 22.00 (Moscow time, GMT+3) the concert will be broadcast live on medici.tv.
Yet another evening of the festival programme will be entirely dedicated to modern dance. Lead soloists of the Mariinsky Ballet will be presenting productions by young choreographers, many of which, following their St Petersburg premieres, have been staged at major international venues, among them Closure by Juliano Nuñes, Divertimento by Dmitry Pimonov, Keep by Maxim Petrov and A Flashback by Ilya Zhivoi. The gala concert will open with a new work by Ilya Zhivoi, staged especially for the MPHIL 360 Degrees festival – the ballet Beneath the Cupola to music by Mahler.
The forum's playbill also includes programmes for all the family at the Concert Hall: the five pieces for children Ma Mère l’Oye by Ravel and L’Histoire du Soldat by Stravinsky. The characters of these musical tales will be brought to life by German actors and the renowned opera and jazz singer Thomas Quasthoff.
At the close of the festival Valery Gergiev will present prize-winners of the latest Tchaikovsky Competition to German audiences: Sergei Dogadin (violin), Mao Fujita (piano), Marc Bouchkov (violin), Zlatomir Fung (cello) and Sofia Viland (flute). At the matinee concert on 2 February they will be performing works by Chopin and Ravel, and at the festival's closing evening performance they will appear with a programme of chamber music with the musicians of the Munich orchestra. On 4 February Valery Gergiev will again be conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker during its tour of towns and cities in Germany and France.
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