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Chopin @ White Nights
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This year the music world celebrates
the 200-th anniversary
of the birth
of Frederick Chopin. Our theater
has joined the festivities by inviting a number of distinguished
artists to the Stars of the White Nights Festival: pianists,
instrumentalists, and also the Ballet company of the Polish National Theatre.
Piano recitals by Yundi
and Alexei Volodin explore
a range of works
exclusively by Chopin.
David Geringas
and Ensemble of Soloists
from the Berlin Philharmonic both offer
interesting programs, which combine works of Chopin
and his contemporaries: Chopin and Schumann, Chopin and Schubert.
A
ballet play Chopin
of the Polish National Theatre
tells the story
of the composer’s life, which
resembled that of the hero
of his musical works, his sweet
and bitter love,
his triumphant concerts, the acceptance
of his musical genius and his interminable
loneliness as well as those who were connected with his destiny.
So, this will be
the week of Chopin at the Stars of the White Nights Festival.
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Yundi piano recital
Works by Chopin
Wednesday 30 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre
Polish National Ballet: Chopin
Ballet in two acts
Choreography by Patrice Bart
Saturday 3 July, 8:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
Sunday 4 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
David Geringas cello recital
Works by Chopin, Schumann
Piano: Ian Fountain
Sunday 4 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Alexei Volodin piano recital
Works by Chopin
Tuesday 6 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic Music
Works by Chopin, Schubert
Wednesday 7 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1100…2000 rub.
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Spartacus — a ballet premiere of the Festival
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Ballet Spartacus returns back
to the repertoire
of the Mariinsky Theatre. This ballet
was first seen in our theater (then Kirov Theatre) at the end of 1956. Its
music was written
by Aram Khachaturian
and choreography
by Leonid Yakobson. This production
was not just a simple ballet event,
but rather a real
artistic breakthrough. In fact,
the performance was shaking!
It combined a genuine passion,
the concentration
of artistic impressions,
as well as almost impossible
at that time erotic theme.
The music, bright and distinctive, is full of rich colours that accurately convey
the ideas of both dramatic and subtle lyrical moments. Aram Khachaturian has created
quite an unusual musical score, astonished
by his gentle attention
to each nuance that highlights
every move
of the ballet. Spartacus
became an absolute artistic success
of our theater,
it had consistently remained
one of the most popular
and beloved ballet shows and gave many opportunities for several
generations of great dancers to shine,
and now once again receives
its long anticipated revival
in the repertoire of our theater.
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Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre
Aram Khachaturian Spartacus
Ballet in three acts
Choreography by Leonid Yakobson
Thursday 1 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 2300…4300 rub.
Monday 5 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1200…4300 rub.
Monday 19 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1500…4300 rub.
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Enter our prize draw
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We should like to congratulate those 12 of our e-newsletter subscribers (of
overall 54 who submitted to us their answers), who answered correctly all five
questions to
the e-quiz
we ran last week (1 — c,
2 — d,
3 — to remove a and d,
4 — a, d and e,
5 — b).
We are delighted to award prizes to the following three prize-winners selected
randomly out of 12 subscribers who sent us correct
answers to all five questions in the e-quiz:
— Aiya Ismailiova —
a pair of tickets to the concert by Anika Vavic
(piano), David Geringas (cello) and Mariinsky Symphony
Orchestra under Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky
Concert Hall on Saturday 26 June at 7:00PM.
— Yulia Kolyasnikova —
Stars of the White Nights
Festival booklet personally signed by Anika Vavic
and David Geringas, soloists
who perform in the concert of Rodion Shchedrin’s music at the Mariinsky
Concert Hall on Saturday 26 June at 7:00PM.
— Pavel Platonov —
a music CD of Rodion Shchedrin’s
works is our fifth release
on the Mariinsky Label,
our own recording label. This CD
features a complete audio-recording
of Enchanted Wanderer
(with Kristina Kapustinskaya, Yevgeny Akimov, Sergei Aleksahkin
and Mariinsky Chorus) and also four
fragments from The Little Humpbacked Horse
and Shchedrin’s Concerto for Orchestra No 1,
composed in 1963 and widely well-known
as Naughty Limericks. Valery Gergiev
conducts Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. This CD
was recorded in July 2008
and released
in March 2010.
We sent them separate e-mails describing how
they can receive their awards.
You are welcome to take part in our
next e-quiz. Send us your answers to
the questions listed below by the end of Sunday 27 June and if you answer all five questions
correctly, your
name will be put into our prize draw. To enter the
prize draw you need to send us your correct answers
either by e-mail to marketing@mariinsky.ru,
or by twitting a direct personal message to either of
our twitter-accounts mariinskyen
or mariinskyru
(please quote your name and e-mail address so that
we can contact you).
Questions of our sixth e-quiz are related to the
upcoming series of Chopin events at
the White Nights and the premiere of Spartacus.
Three winners will be
selected randomly by a computer program from a list of
those who correctly answer all five questions of the e-quiz and send us
their answers by the end of Sunday 27 June. Winners and prizes will be announced in our next
e-newsletter. Best of luck!
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Question 1
Yundi,
who performs
in the recital on Wednesday 30 June,
was a winner
of prestigious Chopin competition. When was
this competition run for the first time?
(a) In 1919
(b) In 1927
(c) In 1934
(d) In 1946
(e) In 1957
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Question 2
Chopin
was once asked, whether he could
characterise his music
in a single word. Which Polish word did he mention?
What does it mean?
(a) smutek
(b) troska
(c) źal
(d) zmartwienie
(e) strapienie
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Question 3
Name the famous poet of Silver Age era, whose niece
was the art director of the ballet Spartacus in Yakobson’s choreography.
(a) Block
(b) Bryusov
(c) Voloshin
(d) Gumilyov
(e) Khodasevich
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Question 4
Remove
from the list below
those artists who did NOT
participate in the premiere
of Spartacus on stage
of the Mariinsky
(then Kirov Theatre) on 29 December 1956.
(a) Inna Zubkovskaya
(b) Askold Makarov
(c) Olga Moiseyeva
(d) Ninel Petrova
(e) Alla Shelest
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Question 5
Spartacus had received
its Mariinsky premiere in 1956
and was revived
twice since then. Select the years
from the list below
when the ballet was revived.
(a) In 1967
(b) In 1976
(c) In 1977
(d) In 1981
(e) In 1985
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