10.04.2020

The Mariinsky online: Shostakovich. Prokofiev. Musorgsky

This weekend the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting recordings of works by three major Russian composers whose legacies to a large degree define the theatre's repertoire policy. The major concert programme of works by Dmitry Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with Konstantin Khabensky as the Narrator and Modest Musorgsky's grandiose opera Khovanshchina, recorded at different times over the years, were conducted by Valery Gergiev. The videos will be accessible on mariinsky.tv, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte for twenty-four hours after the start of the online broadcast.

On 10 April audiences of mariinsky.tv can see a rich musical evening – a Gala Concert marking 110 years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich that was recorded in 2016 on the day of the composer's birth. The programme opens with an early opus – Piano Trion in C Minor, written when he was seventeen while a student at the Petrograd Conservatoire. The trio was performed by young virtuosos and prize-winners of the XV Tchaikovsky Competition Pavel Milyukov (violin), Alexander Ramm (cello) and Sergei Redkin (piano). In the second half of the programme there will be works written by Shostakovich in 1948 – the hardest period of the composer's life – and which spent the next few years locked away "in the drawer": Violin Concerto No 1 and the song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry. The solos in the latter will be sung by Mariinsky Opera soloists Anastasia Kalagina (soprano), Ekaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) and Dmitry Voropaev (tenor).

The series of traditional Saturday broadcasts for family viewing will continue on 11 April at 12.00 with the Mariinsky Theatre broadcasting Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf. At the request of viewers who did not see the last broadcasting of this concert, the theatre will be repeating the performance of Peter and the Wolf, in which the role of the Narrator was performed by the acclaimed theatre and film actor Konstantin Khabensky.

Later that day the Mariinsky Theatre and the international cultural project Russian Seasons are inviting audiences to an evening of opera. At 19.00 on the platforms mariinsky.tv and Stay home with Russian Seasons, as well as Odnoklassniki and VKontakte there will be a screening of Modest Musorgsky's folk musical drama Khovanshchina with its mass crowd scenes, historic costumes and sets by the renowned Moscow designer Fyodor Fedorovsky. This recording from 2012 was recorded by stars of the Mariinsky Theatre whose appearances onstage is a guarantee of its quality: performing the lead roles are Sergei Aleksashkin (Prince Ivan Khovansky), Vladimir Galouzine (Prince Andrei Khovansky), Yevgeny Akimov (Prince Vasily Golitsin), Nikolai Putilin (Shaklovity) and Vladimir Vaneyev (Dosifei). People's Artist of Russia Olga Borodina will be performing the role of Marfa, one of the finest in her repertoire and honed to perfect detail. Dreams of love and rage at being spurned, the humility of the novice and the passionate conviction of a dissenter who sacrifices herself in fire, the latent fire smouldering in the singer's voice will be carefully "swelled" by the orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

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