On 14 February Valery Gergiev unveiled a new chamber hall in the south wing of the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre to Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. St Petersburg has become the first city to be granted a working visit by the minister.
Under the baton of maestro Gergiev there was an acoustic test of the new hall, which saw a performance by Mariinsky Opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra as well as by grant-recipients of the Atkins Program.
“This hall is not an imitation of those located within the Mariinsky II. It has tremendous significance both for orchestral musicians and for young singers – the theatre’s already busy schedule now has additional possibilities to hand. We see this hall as one of the most interesting in terms of the variety of programming, first and foremost its programmes for children and young people.”
“There are absolutely amazing acoustics here, created by top specialists of international repute. Today we have been given the opportunity to hear and appraise these acoustics,” commented Olga Lyubimova.
The creation of the acoustics has been supervised by the internationally renowned Japanese expert Yasuhisa Toyota, who has designed for more than fifty theatre and concert venues, among them the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre and the Zaryadye concert hall. This new hall, which seats some two hundred people, is destined to be a venue for programmes of chamber and choral music, recitals, concerts for small ensembles, master-classes and rehearsals.
The opening of the Mariinsky Theatre’s new chamber hall is scheduled for May 2020.
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