On 1 May the Mariinsky II invites its stage veterans
The first audience at the Mariinsky II will be the theatre’s longest-serving members of staff, veterans of World War II and labour veterans.
On 1 May, the eve of the official opening of the new theatre, the Mariinsky II will throw open its doors for the most important audience of all – the Mariinsky Theatre’s longest-serving members of staff, veterans of World War II and respected representatives of St Petersburg’s cultural intelligentsia.
The pre-premiere performance of the Gala Opening programme will be attended by over three hundred of the theatre’s longest-serving staff members from various departments who have worked here for decades, representatives of twenty-three veterans’ organisations and the city’s museums and cultural institutions as well as the people who have built the new theatre.
The gala programme to be conducted by Valery Gergiev will feature performances by renowned musicians and opera and ballet soloists including Ildar Abdrazakov, Yuri Bashmet, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Leonidas Kavakos, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexei Markov, Denis Matsuev, Anna Netrebko, Yevgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur, Vladimir Shklyarov, Diana Vishneva and Olga Yesina, as well as the Symphony Orchestra, soloists of the Academy of Young Singers, the Children’s Chorus and younger students of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. The concert is being directed by Vasily Barkhatov and designed by Zinovy Margolin (sets) and Damir Ismagilov (lighting).
The participation of performing artists from various generations will be a symbol of the continuity of the theatre’s more than two-hundred-year-long history as a leader in the music world as well as a tribute to the rich traditions of the past, marking the dawn of a new era.
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