On 6 and 7 April the Mariinsky Theatre will be broadcasting two unique recordings online – a world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's symphonic opus Chant funèbre and Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, in which the lead roles in different acts were performed by stars of the Mariinsky Theatre including Viktoria Tereshkina, Anastasia Matvienko, Olesya Novikova, Yevgeny Ivanchenko, Andrei Yermakov and Igor Kolb. The broadcasts will be made via the platform mariinsky.tv, the theatre's pages on Odnoklassniki and VKontakte. Broadcasts begin at 19.00, Moscow Time. The videos will be accessible to view for twenty-four hours.
On 6 April mariinsky.tv will be screening a performance conducted by Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Orchestra of Stravinsky's Chant funèbre, which had been considered lost until 2015. The work was written by Stravinsky at the very outset of his artistic career following the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and was performed just once, in 1909, as part of the programme of the first Russian Symphony Concert, dedicated to the composer's memory. It was thought that the score was lost in Russia during the Revolution, and ever since that time Russian and international catalogues listed Chant funèbre with the remark "not published, lost". In the spring of 2015, when being moved from its historic building, the Sheet Music Library of the St Petersburg State Conservatory found a previously inaccessible store of sheet music. It was among other manuscript materials that the catalogue for the fifty-eight orchestral roles for Stravinsky's symphonic work was discovered. Based on this, a group of experts from the St Petersburg Conservatory reconstructed the score of Chant funèbre, entrusting the Mariinsky Theatre and maestro Gergiev with the world premiere. For the first time in more than one hundred years since its first performance this opus was heard and recorded at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre on 2 December 2016. The concert programme also featured the symphonic suite from the opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia by Rimsky-Korsakov and music from Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. Romeo and Juliet with choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky featuring three casts. That performance (20 April 2018) marked the artistic jubilee of Gennady Selyutsky. On that occasion, to honour the Mariinsky Theatre ballet-master and coach and Honoured Artist of Russia and the Tadzhik SSR, all of the solo male roles were performed by Gennady Naumovich Selyutsky's students – graduates from his class at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and soloists with whom he worked at the Mariinsky Theatre.
The role of Romeo was performed successively by Yevgeny Ivanchenko (Act I), Andrei Yermakov (Act II) and Igor Kolb (Act III), that of Tybalt by Dmitry Pykhachov (Act I) and Danila Korsuntsev (Act II), that of Mercutio by Alexei Timofeyev (Act I) and Alexander Sergeyev (Act II), that of the Jester by Daniil Lopatin and that of the Troubadour by Yevgeny Konovalov. The role of Juliet was performed by Viktoria Tereshkina (Act I), Anastasia Matvienko (Act II) and Olesya Novikova (Act III).
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