The first holidays in May will be packed with popular productions featuring the company’s leading soloists: the operas L’elisir d’amore and Die Zauberflöte and the ballets The Bronze Horseman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Swan Lake. There will also be two performances of the opera The Snow Maiden, a new production of which will be premiered in April. For the matinee there will be an abridged version for younger audiences while the full version with no musical cuts will be performed in the evening.
In celebration of seventy-five years since the allied victory in World War II the Mariinsky Theatre has prepared a series of commemorative events: the ballets The Young Lady and the Hooligan and Leningrad Symphony, the operas The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Brundibár, the wind concerto Victory Music, a performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opus The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and a recital by opera company soloist Sergei Semishkur. Also appearing with a recital programme to mark one hundred and eighty years since the birth of Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be the famed opera singer and Mariinsky Theatre soloist Albina Shagimuratova.
On 17 May the Mariinsky Theatre will be opening its longest and most intense festival of the season – the Stars of the White Nights, which will run for two months and include premieres and appearances by acclaimed instrumentalists and stars of opera and ballet.
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