The Mariinsky Theatre is continuing to expand its online programme and invites viewers to spend time in the evenings watching its finest performances and concerts. The start of all broadcasts is at 19.00 (Moscow Time). The videos will be accessible to view for twenty-four hours thereafter.
The week will commence with a symphony music programme on 30 March on mariinsky.tv with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev continuing to present symphonies by Tchaikovsky. Being performed are the Second, nicknamed by contemporaries as the Little Russian for its particular national flavour, and the Fifth Symphonies. The first part of the series All Tchaikovsky Symphonies, recorded in September 2019 at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow, has already been shown on mariinsky.tv, and its continuation has been scheduled for next week. In the year marking the one hundred and eightieth anniversary of the birth of the composer his works will be performed particularly frequently as part of the Mariinsky Theatre's programmes.
On 31 March there will be a screening of one of the Mariinsky Theatre's "calling cards", the legendary ballet The Bronze Horseman by Reinhold Glière about the city on the River Neva with a stellar cast of performers. The lead roles in the performance, recorded in 2016, were danced by Vladimir Shklyarov (Eugene), Viktoria Tereshkina (Parasha), Danila Korsuntsev (Peter I) and Ekaterina Kondaurova (Queen of the Ball). The conductor was Valery Gergiev. Created in 1949 by the choreographer Rostislav Zakharov, the ballet The Bronze Horseman appeared in a new stage version in the spring of 2016 as part of the international ballet festival Mariinsky. Zakharov's choreography was passed on to dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet by teachers from an older generation who had performed in The Bronze Horseman in the Soviet period, while new elements of the ballet were created by the choreographer Yuri Smekalov who gave the production a more contemporary sheen.
Yet another stellar cast awaits viewers with Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila in a production by Yannis Kokkos – this recording from 2016 will be shown on mariinsky.tv on 1 April. The title roles in the performance were sung by Mariinsky Opera soloist Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the most highly sought-after mezzo-sopranos in the world, and the acclaimed American tenor Gregory Kunde. The role of the High Priest of Dagon was performed by Roman Burdenko, that of Abimélech by Mikhail Petrenko and that of the Old Hebrew by Stanislav Trofimov. The magnificent cast was conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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