On 6 September the XXVIII Stars of the White Nights music festival and the 2019-20 theatre season will draw to a close at the Mariinsky Theatre. The music forum, the first in Russia to open on 20 June following an enforced interruption and now unprecedented in terms of scale, has lasted more than two months. Over this period, the Mariinsky Theatre's venues have hosted over one hundred and ten events.
The theatre will already be launching its new season on 7 September with a performance of a new production of the opera The Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov staged by Anna Matison. Also within the first ten days of the 2020-21 season, audiences may look forward to seeing Anna Netrebko. On 18 September, the singer's birthday, she will be appearing at the historic theatre as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin (directed by Yuri Temirkanov). Also featuring in the lead roles will be Alexei Markov (Eugene Onegin), Sergei Skorokhodov (Lensky) and Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Gremin). Ticket sales for this performance will open soon.
For the closing days of the Stars of the White Nights festival, the theatre has prepared a rich and intense programme for audiences: the premiere of a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden (4 September) and a performance of a revival of The Fiery Angel by Prokofiev to be conducted by Valery Gergiev (2 September), concerts by virtuoso pianist Daniil Trifonov (3 and 4 September), gala concerts and an evening of one-act ballets. On 6 September the Stars of the White Nights will be closing simultaneously at the Mariinsky Theatre's three venues: at the historic theatre there will be a performance of Verdi's opera Rigoletto featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Albina Shagimuratova and Mikhail Petrenko, at the Mariinsky II there will be an evening of one-act ballets with Viktoria Tereshkina, Ekaterina Kondaurova and Kimin Kim, and the Concert Hall will be hosting the final evening of the series All Tchaikovsky Romances which has been prepared by the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers.
Regardless of the unusual conditions in which the festival has been held this year, the theatre has strived to retain the atmosphere of a musical celebration rich in events. The playbill for the Stars of the White Nights featured the names of Olga Peretyatko, Tatiana Serjan, Elena Stikhina, Albina Shagimuratova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Yevgeny Nikitin, Ildar Abdrazakov, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Oxana Skorik, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Timur Askerov, Kimin Kim, Xander Parish and Vladimir Shklyarov. Festival guests included such famous musicians as the pianists Nikolai Lugansky, Denis Matsuev, Dmitry Masleev, Daniil Trifonov and Andrei Korobeinikov and the violinists Vadim Repin, Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici and Pavel Milyukov as well as young talents as Eva Gevorgyan, Alexandra Dovgan, Abisal Gergiev, Arseny Mun and the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra. In addition to its traditional programme, the theatre continued its online work by broadcasting several festival events and screening its finest recordings.
When planning the playbill for the new season, the Mariinsky Theatre has made maximum efforts to present as many cancelled performances as possible with the previously announced casts so that audiences may have the opportunity to see these productions with their favourite performers. The 2020-21 season will see continued compliance with health and safety measures currently in force: chessboard-style seating in the auditoriums, the mandatory use of face coverings and gloves and the requirement to observe social distancing throughout audience presence in theatre buildings.
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