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Ballet revival Scotch Symphony
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On 30 October we present the first
ballet premiere of the season reviving Balanchine’s
Scotch Symphony. For a long time now many
ballet experts called
our ballet company “The Home of Petipa”. Whilst
we are proud to bear this name,
we are equally pleased to extend our repertoire with George
Balanchine’s legacy, presenting works that
are new to us, as well as reviving some of those ballets that
have proved to be firm favourites with the public.
As in the case with many of Balanchine’s
ballets, in Scotch Symphony the dance is closely linked
to the music. Each motion in the dance perfectly depicts
each and every minute musical intonation. The flavour
of Scotland is convincingly expressed in both
the melody and the folk costumes.
On the same evening as Scotch Symphony
we are presenting Theme and Variations, other
work by Balanchine and also In the Night, a ballet
created by his contemporary and colleague from the New York City Ballet period Jerome Robbins. These works, both
revived last season, have been very well received
by our audiences.
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Ballet,
Mariinsky Theatre
Mendelssohn/Balanchine Scotch Symphony
Chopin/Robbins In the Night
Tchaikovsky/Balanchine Theme and Variations
Fri 30 Oct, 7:00pm
Learn more
Book tickets:
160…3840 rub.
Fri 6 Nov, 7:00pm
Learn more
Book tickets:
160…3840 rub.
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YouTube channel:
Ulyana Lopatkina
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video length: 2:01
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Our prima-ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina
stars in Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony
(30 October)
and in Robbins’ In the Night
(6 November). In June, Ulyana told about some of the breathtaking experiences
of her performances
in the classical ballet Swan Lake
by Petipa. Balanchine’s classics
are no less important or challenging
for the ballerina and they reqire
an enormous amount of time
for rehearsals and great emotional commitment.
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YouTube channel:
Ben Huys
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video length: 3:24
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This May
we revived Jerome Robbins’ In the Night. The ballet
was set by Ben Huys, who
is also setting Scotch Symphony. In an interview
the coach
of The Robbins Rights Trust
tells about his collaboration
with our ballet company. He is delighted to note the superb
level of skills and expertise of our dancers, and calls them “la crème de la crème”
of ballet professionalism.
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— Explore Balanchine’s art (including his ballet’s
synopses and key details) on The George Balanchine Trust web-site.
— More Balanchine at the
Mariinsky: Sun 20 Dec in the triple bill of Prodigal Son, Apollo, La Valse.
— Explore
the art of Robbins
(including his biography and works on the choreographer)
on The Jerome Robbins Foundation
and Robbins Rights Trust web-site.
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Operatic Verdi on stage
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This week
we are presenting three of Verdi’s masterpieces
on our main stage.
Verdi’s legacy is extremely important
to us, as one of the world’s
leading opera companies and it is
one of our fundamental principles
to meet the finest
repertoire standards. We are concerned about
a large number of the great
classical works and together our productions
cover a vast range in terms of expressiveness
and interpretation: from the strong classical tradition
to the novelty of experimental ideas. Currently there are ten operas
by Giuseppe Verdi
in our repertoire. We are presenting
three of them later this week: Nabucco, Falstaff
and Aida. These performances
feature some of our top
opera soloists, well-known
to our audiences and who have received
the greatest acclaim on numerous occasions.
A rare constellation of the stars on one stage within one week!
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Opera,
Mariinsky Theatre
Verdi Nabucco
Thu 29 Oct,
7:00pm
M. Khudoley • N. Serdyuk • A. Amonov • E. Umerov • M. Kit
Learn more
Book tickets:
160…3200 rub.
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This is a co-production with Moscow’s Helikon-Opera theatre,
which is renowned for its unusual
experimental approach to staging the opera.
The producer of this version is the Helikon’s
artistic director Dmitry Bertman. The result
is a vibrant and extravagant opera production.
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…the chorus in this production is moving,
spilling over the scenery.
Alexey Konkin
Rossiyskaya gazeta
24 Oct 2005
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Opera,
Mariinsky Theatre
Verdi Falstaff
Sat 31 Oct,
7:00pm
O. Kondina •
O. Trifonova •
A. Kiknadze • E. Sommer • N. Gassiev
V. Gorshkov •
D. Shtoda • A. Gergalov • V. Chernomortsev • M. Petrenko
Learn more
Book tickets:
160…3200 rub.
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This staging of Verdi’s
last masterpiece is full of both sparkling humour
and serious notes, full of both juvenile scenes
and deep ideas about human values.
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At the end of his long
and magnificent career the eighty-year-old Verdi suddenly
produced such an unusual, exquisite,
ironically rueful and teasing
… “Falstaff”
Dmitry Tsylikin
Vedomosti
21 Feb 2006
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Opera, Mariinsky Theatre
Verdi Aida
Sun 1 Nov, 7:00pm
M. Khudoley •
L. Sokolova • A. Agadi •
E. Umerov •
M. Petrenko
Learn more
Book tickets:
160…3200 руб.
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Aida is one of the most popular
operas by Verdi, is in great demand
at any opera house in the world. This opera has been performed
several hundred times on the Mariinsky stage over the past few decades.
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The staging is bright, emotionally deep… traditional in the best sense.
Gyulyara Sadykh-zade
Vremya-MN
1999
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Our new audio recordings
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This month our orchestra and chorus
gave a tour
of the United Kingdom under Valery Gergiev.
In Birmingham we enjoyed an unusual and interesting
collaboration with the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
and CBSO Chorus. Together with these ensembles
we performed
the Requiem
(Grande messe des morts)
by Berlioz. The concert was recorded
on CD and the audience could purchase a copy
immediately after the concert
as they were
leaving the hall. This unusual project
drew a very wide response and nearly
two thirds of concert goers opted to buy
a recording
the same evening. It should be
mentioned here, that both the concert and the recording
took place twice: on both 14 and 15 October, which
means that there is a great opportunity to compare
these two performances, each of them
beyond doubt unique. These recordings
have been made by the prestigious EMI Group.
On 19 October we released a third audio recording on our recently launched studio Mariinsky Label. We included five Tchaikovsky’s works
there, which
feature most sincere patriotic moods
and composer’s admiration
for the greatness of the country.
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Berlioz Requiem (Grande messe des morts)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and CBSO Chorus
Soloist: Sergey Semishkur (tenor)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Recorded in concert and released on 14 and 15 October 2009
More info
(from the EMI Group official web-site)
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Tchaikovsky Selected works
— 1812 Festival Overture
— “Moscow” Cantata
— Slavonic March
(“Marche Slave”)
— Festival Coronation March
— Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem
Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Soloists: Lyubov Sokolova (mezzo-soprano), Alexey Markov (baritone)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Recorded on 15-20 February 2009
Released on 19 October 2009
More info
(from the Mariinsky Label official web-site)
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Additional recordings on the Mariinsky Label
Shostakovich “The Nose” (released on 25 May 2009)
Shostakovich Symphonies 1 & 15 (released on 29 June 2009)
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