The Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is preparing to finalize its tour-rich and busy season with a series of brilliant performances on its home stage. On May 1, 2024, Ludwig Minkus’ colorful and festive ballet Don Quixote will open the playbill to the rhythmic sound of castanets and fluttering fans. On May 4, 2024 (at 14:00 and 19:00) and May 25, 2024 (at 14:00 and 19:00) the ballet connoisseurs will enjoy the fascinating and vivid ballet A Thousand and One Nights by Fikret Amirov. Let us remind you that earlier this season, this enchanting ballet was performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, and in the capital of Qatar, Doha. On May 10, 2024 (at 14:00 and 19:00), the sense of wonder will build up with the performances of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, and Adolphe Adam’s adventure ballet Le Corsaire (May 8 and 12, 2024).
Until the end of the season, the ballet playbill will also feature Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (May 16 and 18, 2024), Raymonda by Alexander Glazunov (May 23, 2024), The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky and Carmen Suite by Bizet and Shchedrin (May 30, 2024). Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty (June 1, 2024) will come as a beautiful and solemn ending of the ballet season.
On May 9, 2024, the Great Victory Day, a festive concert “The Lord is My Hope” will take place, which will mark the opening of the I Far East Easter Festival. The Mariinsky Orchestra, Chorus and soloists of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy and the Russian Pacific Fleet Orchestra will participate in the gala concert. In total, from May 9 to 14, 2024, the Festival will embrace the four largest cities of the Far Eastern Federal District: Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Before the festive day, on May 7 and 8, 2024, opera soloists will perform famous war songs in the Chamber Hall of the Theatre.
On May 3, 2024, the concert playbill of the Chamber Hall will be supplemented by the Evening of ancient music. The program includes works by George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, George Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach. On May 24, 2024, a concert dedicated to the Day of Slavonic Literature will take place in the Great Hall with the participation of children’s and adult choruses of the city, accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage.
Equally generous gifts are in store for the opera connoisseurs in May. Among them, there will be high-profile opera premieres of the season. On May 3, 2024, the audiences will enjoy Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges, a comical and vivid love story with adventures and magical transformations, staged by Director Alexander Petrov and Set and Costume Designer Vyacheslav Okunev. On May 22, 2024, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyrical opera Iolanta will be performed. The composer’s last work is filled with joy and hope; Stage Director Anna Shishkina and Set and Costume Designer Pyotr Okunev have put it in the form of a philosophical fairy tale with a happy ending.
The May playbill will also be adorned by the delightful Die Zauberflöte (May 5, 2024) and Le nozze di Figaro (May 11, 2024) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and by the dramatic Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (May 17, 2024). The Chamber Hall of the Theatre will host opera performances for the whole family: The Turnip by Rustam Sagdiev (May 4, 2024 at 12:00 and 14:00), The Little Prince by Leonid Klinichev (May 10, 2024, June 1, 2024), Murych the Cat by Sergei Banevich (May 12 and 25, 2024), and Town Musicians of Bremen by Gennady Gladkov (May 30, 2024 at 12:00 and 14:00).
The season will be summed up with the culmination of the large-scale cycle “Pushkin – 225”, dedicated to the anniversary of the great poet. The famous operas will be presented, based on Pushkin’s plots: The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (May 19, 2024), Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (May 26, 2024), and the historical drama Boris Godunov by Modest Musorgsky (May 29, 2024). Pushkin’s star will also shine over performances of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s one-act operas Aleko and The Miserly Knight (May 31, 2024). The audiences will also have the chance to enjoy the theatrical concert Ruslan and Lyudmila in the Chamber Hall of the Theater, accompanied by sand animation (May 18, 2024). The performance that closes the theatre season will also be Pushkin’s opera The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in a luxurious costume staging by Yuri Temirkanov (June 2, 2024).
