The Mariinsky Theatre is delighted to be able to announce new events at the Stars of the White Nights festival. The next week of the festival programme is to be adorned by acclaimed operatic masterpieces, classical and contemporary ballet productions and an extensive concert music repertoire.
Operas that have been added to the playbill include Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, one of the greatest achievements of Romantic bel canto, in which the title role will be performed by Albina Shagimuratova. Also at the Mariinsky II, there will once again be performances of popular Russian, Italian and French classics – Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Puccini's La Bohème, Verdi's Aida and Bizet's Carmen.
One of the finest examples of classical choreography will be returning to the stage – Giselle, the touching and dramatic story about a great love told through the ideal harmony of dance, while Ilya Zhivoi's ballet The Seasons to music from the timeless cycle by Vivaldi arranged by Max Richter is a light and ethereal ballet, very suited to the summer season.
The concert repertoire is to feature grand symphonic scores by van Beethoven and Mozart, performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Christian Knapp, as well as an evening of religious music – soloists of the theatre's opera company and orchestra will be performing Pergolesi's heartfelt and sensitive masterpiece Stabat Mater. Fans of chamber vocal performance may look forward to romances by Tchaikovsky – a new programme prepared by soloists of the Academy of Young Opera Singers to mark one hundred and eighty years since the composer's birth, while for those who prefer the rich sound of the organ there will be a concert by the St Petersburg organist Olga Kotlyarova.
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