Today sees the start of the latest tour by the Mariinsky Orchestra. Over the next three days – 16, 17 and 18 November – Valery Gergiev and the ensemble together with pianist Alexander “Lexo” Toradze will be presenting concerts in Tomsk, Kemerovo and Yakutsk. The programmes for the performances include music of the 20th century: Alexander Scriabin’s Promethée (also featuring the theatre’s chamber chorus), Dmitry Shostakovich’s First and Eighth Symphonies and Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin.
The next point of call on the tour is to be Vladivostok, where together with their colleagues from St Petersburg the theatre’s Primorsky branch will perform a premiere of Musorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina. This marks the setting of the acclaimed 1952 Kirov Theatre production from St Petersburg — directed by Leonid Baratov with designs by Fyodor Fedorovsky. The lead roles are to be sung by top Mariinsky Theatre soloists: Yulia Matochkina and Yekaterina Sergeyeva (Marfa), Vladimir Vaneyev (Dosifey), Mikhail Petrenko (Ivan Khovansky), Yevgeny Akimov (Andrei Khovansky), Vladislav Sulimsky (Shaklovity), Oleg Videman (Golitsyn) and Andrei Zorin (a Scrivener). Both premiere performances of the opera on 19 and 20 November will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.
The day before, 18 November, soloists of the opera company will be appearing on-stage in a gala concert; the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage is to be conducted by Pavel Smelkov. At the Chamber Hall on 20 November there will be a programme of chamber music by soloists of the Mariinsky Orchestra; the special guest will be Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici (violin).
The tour will conclude with concert performances by the St Petersburg musicians in Seoul. Valery Gergiev will be travelling to the South Korean capital with the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble — the theatre’s chamber string orchestra. The performances will take place on 24 November at the Lotte Concert Hall, a major venue in Asia. There there will be a performance of Prokofiev’s First Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake and opuses by Debussy, Ravel and Mendelssohn. The tour forms part of the international cultural project Russian Seasons.
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