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Attila — the last premiere of the 227th season
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We’re presenting our last premiere
on the Mariinsky Theatre
historic stage in the 227th season — Attila, an opera
by Giuseppe Verdi. The opera is based
upon a romantic tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen written in 1809
by Friedrich Ludwig
Zacharias Werner. The whole nations are the
key acting roles in this tragedy and
therefore Attila is often referred to as
a historic blockbuster. The story of this
opera, which unveils the fights between the Barbarians
and the Latin civilisation, happens around the middle of the 5th century.
In the opera, a multiethnic army of Attila (who was
one of the most influential rulers of the Barbarians,
whose Empire was stretching
from South Germany to Volga
and Ural Mountains
and from Baltic Sea
to the Caucasus) is opposed
to the Roman heroes led by a fearless Odabella. “Patria” (i.e. Motherland)
is the main keyword in the libretto. A murder of the
barbarian warrior by the Roman heroine was aimed to raise the hopes of freedom among Verdi’s contemporaries.
Attila had received its Russian premiere on
stage of the Odessa Opera Theatre in 1849. Our
production is the first ever performance of the opera in St Petersburg. Attila joins a collection of
Verdi’s operatic legacy at the Mariinsky Theatre,
thus becoming the tenth fully-staged
Verdi’s opera in our repertoire.
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Opera, Mariinsky Theatre
Verdi Attila
Stage Production by Arturo Gama
Tuesday 13 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Just premiered!
Wednesday 14 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1280…3200 rub.
Wednesday 21 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
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Watch the rehearsal of Attila on our YouTube channel.
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© Mariinsky Media
video length: 6:35
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On tour: opera and orchestra in Germany
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In a few days our Opera Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
are going on our to Germany. Five consecutive
nights will be spent on stage of
the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, the
largest opera theatre in Europe, the stage that has
become our regular residency in the last decade.
Mariinsky Theatre is the only
music theatre in the world that performs in Baden-Baden every year,
presenting residencies that feature various thematic
series of ballet and opera productions as concerts of
symphonic music.
Orchestral tour in Germany will be continued with a
few performances at the remarkable summer festivals of German lands: Rheingau (Wiesbaden)
and Schleswig-Holstein (Hamburg, Lübeck). Some
concerts will be dedicated to the 150th anniversary
of Gustav Mahler. All concerts of our
German tour will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.
After the 227th season closing and at the end of our
tour we shall take a short vacation, but before the
new season opening in September, we’ll be seen on
various tours in European countries: Spain,
Slovenia, Sweden, Austria, Holland, Switzerland
and France. We’ll be keeping you
informed in our e-newsletters as well as other online media.
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Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus
16 & 18 Jul
Rossini Il viaggio a Reims
Learn more
Sat 17 Jul
Verdi Requiem
Learn more
Mon 19 Jul
Liszt, Gubaidulina, Wagner
Learn more
Tue 20 Jul
Wagner, Musorgsky
Learn more
Wiesbaden, Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal
Wed 21 Jul
Mahler Symphony 9
Learn more
Hamburg, Laeiszhalle
Thu 22 Jul
Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Shchedrin
Learn more
Lübeck, Musik- und Kongresshalle
Fri 23 Jul
Mahler Symphony 9
Learn more
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Our photostream on Flickr
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Here is a collection of selected photographs of our artists, ballet & opera performances, concerts, tours
and other remarkable highlights
from the day-to-day life
of the Mariinsky Theatre. Every day
on our recently launched
Flickr photostream.
Click each of these photos to enlarge.
Photostream address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariinsky/
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Answers to our most recent e-quiz
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We should like to congratulate three prize-winners of our
last e-quiz:
Yevgeny Gusakov, Elena Dudina
and Tatiana Motkova. Their names were
selected randomly out of 12 subscribers who sent us correct
answers to all five questions
of the e-quiz. 25 our e-newsletter
subscribers took part in this e-quiz.
Questions of our most recent e-quiz (the last one in the 227th season) were related
to the Scandinavian connections of the Mariinsky Theatre
Correct answers:
- (a) & (e). Works Insomnia
(in 2003) and Helix
(in 2007) by Esa-Pekka Salonen were
performed in St Petersburg by the Symphony
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, the composer
himself conducting.
- (b). It was the Norwegian town Tromsø, where our Ballet
Company performed to the greatest public acclaim
this season.
- (b). It was Ein Deutsches Requiem
by Brahms that was performed jointly by the
Chorus of Swedish Radio and the Symphony Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre this season.
- (b) &
(d). Fourth Piano Concerto
by Prokofiev (soloist: Alexander Toradze)
and Violin Concerto by Myaskovsky (soloist: Vadim Repin) were recorded on music CDs by the
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under
Valery Gergiev at the Martti Talvela Hall in Mikkeli.
- (e). Second, Sixth and Seventh
symphonies by Sibelius were performed at the
Stars of the White Nights Festival in July 2008 by the
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under
Paavo Järvi.
Next season there will be more other exiting e-quizzes
and events for brain and pleasure. We hope you’ll
enjoy them.
Stay with us!
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