Hello, the new season at the Mariinsky Theatre and Concert Hall starts in less than a couple weeks.

► On tour to Holland, Switzerland and France
►▼ Rotterdam
►▼ Basel
►▼ Paris
► Our box-offices are working full-time as usual
► How have you spent your holiday?

We are looking forward to starting the new season at the Mariinsky Theatre and Concert Hall in a few days. Prior to that, our Orchestra, Chorus and opera soloists along with Valery Gergiev are going on a short tour, so that we’re back to St Petersburg right on time before the new season begins. On this tour we are going to visit Holland, Switzerland and France.

Our operatic forces are going to be in Rotterdam on 4 & 5 September performing within the framework of the annual Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival. Valery Gergiev is the founder and artistic director of this festival. Traditionally, the festival runs every autumn for about ten days and each year it becomes an important event in the cultural life of the whole country. For instance, this year one of the festival concerts, conducted by Valery Gergiev, will be attended by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix. This year, along with the symphony concerts by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and other cultural activities (such as: arts exhibitions, movies, chamber music recitals, meetings with artists etc.) our theatre will be participating in the festival giving two performances in the Concert Hall of De Doelen arts center. One evening we shall present a symphonic work that requires enormous resources: Eighth Symphony by Gustav Mahler and the other evening we shall give a staged performance (by Alexei Stepanyuk) of Rodion Shchedrin’s opera The Enchanted Wanderer: for the first time in the Netherlands.

Mahler’s Eighth Symphony will also be performed in Basel on 6 September along with the Second Symphony by Shostakovich. This concert forms a part of the ongoing long-term project aimed at performing the cycle of Symphonies by Shostakovich in Basel featuring multiple orchestras conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony by opera soloists, Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under Valery Gergiev on 8 September will launch the new concert season at Salle Pleyel in Paris. Last season at the Mariinsky Concert Hall was marked with a project of an enormous artistic significance: a performance of complete symphonies by Gustav Mahler. In the upcoming concert season Valery Gergiev leads both the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre and the London Symphony Orchestra along with a range of various Choruses and singers in the performances of complete cycles of Mahler’s Symphonies in New York (Carnegie Hall — in October, Avery Fisher Hall — in February) and in Paris (Salle Pleyel — in September, December and March). We are particularly proud that our theatre launches both of these ambitious cultural initiatives and takes part in a significant share of these concerts.

Photo: © Marco Borggreve

Holland: Rotterdam, De Doelen
Saturday 4 September
Mahler Symphony 8
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Sunday 5 September
Shchedrin The Enchanted Wanderer
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Switzerland: Basel, Stadtcasino
Monday 6 September
Shostakovich Symphony 2
Mahler Symphony 8
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France: Paris, Salle Pleyel
Wednesday 8 September
Mahler Symphony 8
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Works to be performed on this tour are recorded on CDs featuring our artists

Yesterday, on 1 September, all our box-offices at the Mariinsky Theatre and Concert Hall came back to their work as normal. We’re back from our holiday and very happy to serve you assisiting with selecting and booking your tickets to our performances. Feel free to just come and see us!

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Mariinsky Theatre
1, Theatre Square
Daily from 11:00AM to 7:00PM

Mariinsky Concert Hall
37, Decembrists’ Street
Daily from 11:00AM to 7:00PM, closed from 2:00PM to 3:00PM

Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor
Corner of the Nevskaya and Perinnaya Lines, mezzanine level
Daily from 11:00AM to 9:00PM, closed from 2:30PM to 4:00PM

Central Agency of Air Communications
7/9, Nevsky Prospect, ground floor
Mon-Fri from 11:00AM to 8:00PM, Sat-Sun from 11:00AM to 6:00PM; closed from 1:00PM to 2:00PM

The time since the last season came to a close in July was rather intense for our theatre: whilst both the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall buildings experienced a range of scheduled maintenance works in order to be suitably prepared for the new season, our Orchestra, Chorus and opera soloists under Valery Gergiev performed in a number of venues in Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden and Austria (and will shortly go to Holland, Switzerland and France).

Tell us how you have spent your holiday? Feel free to send us your stories, photograps or videos (or simply links to them) by e-mail on marketing@mariinsky.ru. We’ll be happy to learn how our theatre-goers have been spending their time this summer. The most interesting stories, photos and videos will be published on our social media resources and their authors will be awarded with a prize.

The next issue of our e-newsletter will be released in the new, 228th season, in a newly designed look & feel. We’ll continue keeping you informed about what’s going on in and around our theatre. Stay with us!

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Events in September
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