On 7 September the Marinsky Theatre opens the 2020-21 season. On that evening the Mariinsky-II will host a premiere performance of a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden conducted by Valery Gergiev (the production by Anna Matison will see its debut on 4 September). The season at the Concert Hall commences with the French virtuoso Lucas Debargue who was revealed to the world following the XV Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015.
For his recital the pianist has selected sonatas by Scarlatti – an outstanding composer of the Baroque era and a herald of musical classicism. The sonatas will be interlaced with consonant works by Lucas Debargue himself: Prelude and Fugue in G minor and Toccata in B minor, in addition to works by the contemporary French composer Stéphane Delplace. The concert will be framed by works by Bach and Scarlatti, his contemporary: Toccata No 2 in C minor and Concerto Italiano in F major.
The September playbill also includes performances and concerts transferred from spring months in addition to several special events. On her birthday on 18 September Anna Netrebko will be performing the role of Tatiana in the opera Eugene Onegin at the Mariinsky Theatre. She will be accompanied by a stellar cast including Ekaterina Semenchuk (Olga), Alexei Markov (Eugene Onegin), Sergei Skorokhodov (Lensky) and Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Gremin). Tchaikovsky's masterpiece after the novel-in-verse by Pushkin will be performed using the 1982 production by Yuri Temirkanov.
On 24 September audiences may look forward to a ballet premiere – Alexei Ratmansky's Seven Sonatas to music by Scarlatti. Created in 2009 for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), the production was transferred to the Mariinsky Theatre this spring for the traditional ballet festival, though the company was unable to present it to the public due to the cancellation of crowd events. As had been initially envisioned, the premiere will take place as part of an evening of ballets by Ratmansky, also to include Pierrot Lunaire featuring Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim and Concerto DSCH featuring Kimin Kim and Xander Parish.
As the 2020-21 season opens at the Mariinsky Theatre, current health and safety measures remain in force: temperatures to be measured on entering the theatre, the mandatory use of face-coverings and gloves and the requirement to observe social distancing throughout audience attendance within the theatre.
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