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The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre invites schoolchildren and their parents to performances for the whole family. Those will not only bring some extra joy to the holidays, but also will introduce the audience to the culture patterns of various countries and eras.

On March 26 and 28, 2025, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov will help you truly feel the spring. The composer has described his work as a “springtime tale”; indeed, the opera is tinted with soft lyricism and spring tones of the blossoming nature. The Primorsky Stage performance is as “cosmic” and imaginative as the Snow Maiden herself. A colorful world will come to life on stage, as seen through the eyes of a cold maiden who has become an “alien” in the land of the Berendeyans, in an original stage interpretation by Alexander Galibin and set design by Georgy Tsypin. On March 26, 2025, the audiences will get a chance to not merely attend the performance, but also to learn more about the production and creation of the opera at the Scenic Introduction class. The educational meeting with the Primorsky Stage musicologist will take place an hour before the start of the performance, in the lobby on the 5^th floor.

On March 29, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) ballet by Rodion Shchedrin will be presented. Based on the famous tale by Pyotr Yershov, this performance is a perfect combination of classics and modernity, filigree performance and pantomime; the video projections and stylish designs create the magic spirit.

On March 27 and April 6, 2025, one of the most popular ballets in the classical legacy will be performed, La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus. The theatre-goers will enjoy the romantic Ancient Indian legend in the classic choreography by Marius Petipa. The picturesque scenery will be an accurate replica of the design used for the very first staging of the ballet. The audiences will be treated to oriental ballet exoticism and the brilliant academicism, which has received its eternal embodiment in The Kingdom of Shades scene from Act III of the ballet. 

On April 4, 2025, the caravan of classic masterpieces will continue with the most mystical ballet of the world repertoire, Giselle by Adolphe Adam. The performance made most recently its way back to the Primorsky Stage playbill after a tour at the Mariinsky Theatre, and is now ready to once again excite the audience with the idea of all-conquering love that defies even the otherworldly forces trying to block its path.

On April 3 and 5, 2025, at the end of the spring holidays, Giacomo Puccini’s colorful opera Madama Butterfly will be performed. This time, the young connoisseurs will find themselves in the atmosphere of the “Land of the Rising Sun” and get acquainted with the dramatic story of the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. The author of the Primorsky Stage production is the famous Polish stage director Mariusz Treliński, whose performance gives a brilliant embodiment to oriental motifs and stylish Japanese minimalism.

Fikret Amirov’s ballet A Thousand and One Nights staged by the Ballet Artistic Director of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, People’s Artist of Russia Eldar Aliev, now belongs to the 100 best national performances. 

The advent on the Primorsky Stage of the ballet A Thousand and One Nights based on the famous collection of Arabic and Persian fairy tales took place in 2020. Eldar Aliev has created a new version of the ballet especially for the Theatre in Vladivostok, involving almost the entire ballet company; in addition to the extensive crowd scenes, the production includes 13 solo parts. Set and Costume Designer Pyotr Okunev has combined pictorial scenery with video projections. The colorful, hand-embroidered costumes and scenery have been created by talented craftsmen from St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. Today, the performance rides high both on the Primorsky Stage and at the top venues around the world. The ballet has received an invariably warm public welcome on the stages of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China, and in the Middle East, in the capitals of Qatar and Oman.

The Golden Pool of the Russian Theatrical Productions is a high-profile theatrical project dedicated to the celebration of the 150^th anniversary of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. The Golden Pool of the Russian Theatrical Productions is formed by selected pieces. These performances will become part of the information campaign accompanying celebrations of the 150^th anniversary of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation, and they are going to receive wide coverage on the media partners’ platforms; also, they will be awarded with commemorative certificates. Besides, a library of TV versions of the Golden Pool productions will be established.

Before the end of the theatrical season, Vladivostok audiences will be able to enjoy Fikret Amirov’s exuberant masterpiece on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre on May 10, 2025 at 15:00 and 19:00.

On February 27 and 28, 2025, the audience of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will enjoy a new director’s version of Igor Stravinsky’s Mavra.

The opera will be presented by two casts of singers: those who have participated in the first productions of the opera, and new soloists. On February 27, 2025, the vivid images will be embodied by Anastasia Kikot, Laura Bustamante, Irina Kolodyazhnaya and Vsevolod Marilov; on February 28, 2025, Samira Galimova, Natalia Yakimova, Elena Glushenko, and Ilya Astafurov will take the stage.

When creating Mavra in 1921, the composer “sought to convey the ‘zephyr’ of Pushkin’s verses”. He dedicated the opera to Mikhail Glinka and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, because he wanted to convey his musical and spiritual kinship with the composers. This ironic opera with a vaudevillian ending is written in a grotesque musical language, combining features of an urban romance, gypsy motifs, a military march and a quadrille. “This is a new twist in the development of musical ideals”, wrote Igor Stravinsky about the score of his Mavra.

Here is what Irina Soboleva, Artistic Director of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, told: “Igor Stravinsky’s music is distinguished by its unpredictability. By the way, the same is true for the personality of this great composer-inventor, the most prominent representative of the global musical culture of the 20^th century. Despite his immigration and creative experiments, his music had always remained Russian. Mavra demonstrates it perfectly. Speaking about the composer, I would like to recall one of his quotes. As if in a mirror, it reflects the author himself, with that elongated face of his, his harsh features, and his irony: ‘The only possible commentary on a musical composition is another musical composition!’ I hope that the airy and witty Mavra will once again become a highlight of the Chamber Hall’s playbill”.

Vyacheslav Starodubtsev, Stage Director, has followed the composer’s path and resorted to a synthesis of drama and opera theatrical tools with the poetic source, using as basis Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Little House in Kolomna and his lyceum verses. He defines the genre of his performance as “an operatic joke”. In the new version of the performance, another character will be added to the cast, and some of the mise-en-scènes will be changed. Nevertheless, the design of the performance will remain familiar to the viewer, because the Set Designer Pyotr Okunev has filled the scenery with subtle visual irony and created sets and costumes that cannot be attributed to any epoch. Thus, the action takes place against the backdrop of a blue sky and white clouds where the main characters “hover”; white dresses float above the stage as a symbol of maiden dreams of pure love.

Before the end of the season, the performance will be presented on March 19 and 20, April 17, May 16 and 17, 2025.

In March, the large-scale Verdi Marathon, dedicated to works by the famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, will continue with a grand opera and an exclusive concert program. On March 1, 2025, the concert version of Il trovatore will be performed. The plot of this spectacular musical thriller is centered on love, revenge and a fatal secret from the past. On March 5, 2025, one of the composer’s most lush and colorful operas with Egyptian-style scenery, Aida, will be presented. On March 7, 2025, the pinnacle event of the project, the Gala Verdi Concert, will take place. The soloists of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage will perform the finest solo and ensemble pieces from the composer’s operas that are not embraced by the Theatre’s repertoire, namely Nabucco, Attila, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, Lo Spazzacamino, Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera and La forza del destino. Many of them will be performed for the first time in Vladivostok.

The audience will also be treated to many events associated with the name of Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s masterpieces, which have graced the Primorsky Stage repertoire recently, will be performed in the Great and Chamber Halls of the Theatre. On the single night of March 15, 2025, the audience will enjoy the iconic and original examples of the Russian avant-garde ballet, that is, Les Noces choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and Petrouchka choreographed by Michael Fokine. On March 19 and 20, 2025, the premiere performances of the new director’s version of the opera Mavra will continue on the Chamber Stage. The performance staged by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev will create a vibrant theatrical atmosphere, combining the genres of commedia dell’arte, vaudeville and an intriguing love story.

The Theatre team has also prepared festive concerts and performances on the special occasion of the International Women’s Day. On March 8 and 9, 2025, the Great Hall will host the romantic knightly saga about love, told in the language of classical dance: Raymonda ballet by Alexander Glazunov. In addition, on March 8 and 9, 2025, the Chamber Hall will host Spring Tango gala evening. The programme will include sensual works by Oscar Strok, Alexander Vertinsky, Efim Rozenfeld, Konstantin Listov, Eduard Kolmanovsky and other composers. The pearls of instrumental and vocal music will be performed by opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage.

This spring, the Theatre will unite audiences of different ages and preferences once again. In early March, operas by Russian composers will be presented, such as The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (March 2, 2025), The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (March 12, 2025), and Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (March 14, 2025). The March playbill will continue with colorful performances with Spanish flavor: Ludwig Minkus’s ballet Don Quixote (March 13, 2025) and Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (March 16, 2025). The latter performance will be dedicated to the 150^th anniversary of the opera’s world premiere.

With the approach of spring holidays, the Theatre’s playbill will be adorned with impeccable classics. Among the classical heritage performances, the audiences will enjoy Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky  in its updated stage version (March 20 and 21, 2025) and La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus (March 27, 2025). The masterpiece of the Italian bel canto style, the opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, will be performed twice, on March 21 and 23, 2025. During the spring holidays, fairy-tale performances for the whole family will be presented, namely Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Snow Maiden (March 26 and 28, 2025) and Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) (March 29, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00).

The emotional opera drama Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (March 30, 2025) staged and designed by Marat Gatsalov will come as the final chord of the month. This performance combines in itself the aesthetics of commedia dell’arte and the Hollywood cinema. The playbill of the Chamber Hall will also go beyond the ordinary, as on March 30, 2025, the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present the Brass Concert Orchestra Gold for the first time.

On February 27 and 28, 2025, the Chamber Hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will present a new director’s version of the opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky, staged by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev.

This one-act comic opera is composed after Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Little House in Kolomna. Its plot is based on the love story of a modest girl Parasha and a young hussar Vasily, who, in order to reunite with his beloved one, enters her family’s house under the guise of a cook Mavra.

In his production, Vyacheslav Starodubtsev resorts to a synthesis of drama and opera theatrical tools: musical scenes are interspersed with spoken monologues, where the text from The Little House in Kolomna, originally not included into the libretto, is used as basis. Those scenes are performed by an actor made up to look like Pushkin who introduces the operatic events and comments on them; sometimes, “Pushkin” acts as a direct participant on the stage. The opera premiered in Vladivostok in November 2015. After its success on its home stage, in 2018 the performance was presented in Saint Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, marking the first tour of the Vladivostok opera company.

The performance will return to the Chamber Hall of the Primorsky Stage in the public’s favorite scenery, but with some new accents. Also, it will complement a number of iconic works by Igor Stravinsky that have recently appeared in the Theatre’s repertoire: Les Noces and Petrouchka ballets.

Vyacheslav Starodubtsev, Stage Director, commented:

“I really love to return to this or that content now and then. This allows one to delve deeper into the material and to truly reveal its musical dramaturgy. Today, it is important for the cast to find new facets and depths of Stravinsky’s music and Pushkin’s texts which haven’t lost their relevance even after a century. Now we have found a unique acting style for each artist, and have also added another image that Pushkin’s character embodies, and that’s Cupid. At the same time, the basis of the director’s concept of the performance remains unaltered, representing a synthesis of several genres, namely opera, ballet and drama theatre. I am sure that the passion, talent and creative fervor that the audiences will encounter in this performance will come as a great pleasure and surprise for them!”

The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre presents the music project Verdi Marathon, which will unite operas and special events to be held in honor of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi from February 14, 2025 to March 7, 2025.

The opera part of the project comprises the most often performed and well-known compositions by the Italian maestro. Within the first week of the Marathon, the audiences will be able to enjoy La traviata on February 14, 2025, Rigoletto on February 15, 2025, and Don Carlo on February 16, 2025. The primary parts will be performed by opera soloists of the Primorsky Stage such as Olga Zharikova, Alexei Kostyuk, César Méndez, Mingiyan Odzhaev, Sergey Krylov, Alisa Fedorenko, Sergei Pleshivtsev, Medet Chotabayev, Dmitry Migulyov, Yevgeny Plekhanov, Liliya Kadnikova, and Natalia Yakimova.

On February 20, 2025, the opera Macbeth after William Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name with its medieval magnetic charm will become a long-awaited event for the public. Such soloists as Alexei Repin, Yevgeny Plekhanov, Alena Diyanova, Dagvadorj Davaasuren, and Roman Krukovich will bring to life the vivid images in the performance. On March 5, 2025, the audiences will also be able to enjoy Aida, one of the most large-scale productions from the Verdi’s repertoire. Such opera singers as Alena Diyanova, Tatiana Makarchuk, Dagvadorj Davaasuren, Bat-Erdene Dorjtseden, Gennady Akhmedov, and Sergei Pleshivtsev will appear in the performance.

The concert part of the project will open with Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. On February 23, 2025, the heartfelt sacred composition – it is also called “an opera in ecclesiastical robes” – will be performed by opera soloists, the Chorus and The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage. Another musical surprise will be presented by the Primorsky Stage for the audiences on March 1, 2025, when Il trovatore, one of the most emotionally charged operas by the composer, will be performed in concert.

On March 7, 2025, Verdi Marathon will culminate in the large-scale concert Gala Verdi. Opera soloists of the Primorsky Stage will perform best solo and ensemble pieces from Verdi’s operas not included in the repertoire of the Theatre, such as Nabucco, Attila, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, Lo Spazzacamino, Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera, and La forza del destino.

The audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the world of Italian opera and learn more about the composer and his works by attending Scenic Introduction in the lobby on the 5^th floor an hour before the relevant performance. The informative meetings will be held before La traviata on February 14, 2025, Rigoletto on February 15, 2025, Macbeth on February 20, 2025, Aida on March 5, 2025, and Verdi. Requiem on February 23, 2025.

It should be noted that the Mariinsky Theatre is famous for its wide and varied Verdi’s repertoire. Nowadays the unique repertoire of the Primorsky Stage includes five brilliant masterpieces by the composer.

On the threshold of the main winter holiday, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre presents large-scale colorful performances that are going to support the New Year’s festive atmosphere and give the audiences a boost of good mood.

At the beginning of the month, the Theatre’s playbill will feature classical ballet masterpieces. Ludwig Minkus’s Don Quixote (December 1, 2024) promises a true boost of sunny mood; the exclusive performances of Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam (December 4, 2024) and Raymonda by Alexander Glazunov (December 6 and 8, 2024) by the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage will come as a firework of romantic exploits.

Another significant event will be the updated version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, which will be presented to the audience in a new stage design on December 19 and 20, 2024. In addition, the production of the main winter ballet of the Primorsky Stage, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, will be celebrating its 10^th anniversary. The performances will take place from December 14 to 31, 2024 and will traditionally be accompanied by the advent of Grandfather Frost and Snegurochka. Another bright spot for ballet lovers will be the night dedicated to one-act ballets Carmen Suite by Bizet – Shchedrin, and Phaedra choreographed by Flemming Flindt.

At the end of the year, the Great Hall of the Theatre will host famous Russian operas: Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (December 5, 2024) dedicated to the 225^th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (December 11, 2024) dedicated to the 180^th anniversary of the composer, and the serenest opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Iolanta (December 13, 2024). Among the cheerful holiday performances of the month there will be the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II (December 7, 2024 at 14:00 and 19:00) and the bel canto masterpiece Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (December 21 and 24, 2024).

Perhaps, the warmest and most heartfelt New Year’s concerts will traditionally be held in the Chamber Hall of the Primorsky Stage. Starting from December 27, 2024, soloists of the opera and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will be waiting for guests at the theatrical evening concert “New Year’s Lights”, where they will perform popular classical and pop-music repertoire. During the daytime, one-act operas for family viewing will be performed, such as The Little Prince by Leonid Klinichev (December 14, 15, 21 and 27, 2024), The Turnip by Rustam Sagdiev (December 8, 28 and 29, 2024), Murych the Cat by Sergei Banevich (December 30, 2024), as well as Town Musicians of Bremen to the music by Gennady Gladkov (December 1, 20, 22 and 31, 2024).

It has grown into a good tradition that the Theatre team gives a series of pre-New Year performances in Primorsky Region. On December 18, 2024, opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov will perform for teachers and students at the Far Eastern Federal University. On December 21, 2024, they will perform the opera for the whole family, The Little Prince by Leonid Klinichev, and give New Year Gala “I Can Recall That Magic Moment” at the House of Officers of Ussuriysk Garrison.

This year, the IX International Mariinsky Far East Festival was held on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in a new format. The opera program was presented from October 29, 2024 to November 3, 2024, and the ballet program, from November 14 to 17, 2024.

As part of the ballet program, the audience enjoyed the recent Mariinsky premieres for the first time. On November 14 and 15, 2024, the ballet part of the Festival opened with Anyuta set to music by Valery Gavrilin. The landscape of a small provincial town, the glitter of high society, and the mental anguish of Chekhov’s heroes were embodied choreographically by Vladimir Vasiliev, People’s Artist of the USSR.

On November 16 and 17, 2024, the Primorsky Stage hosted performances of Leo Delibes’ comic ballet Coppélia. This colorful production choreographed by Alexander Sergeev had appeared on the Mariinsky Theatre playbill at the end of the last season. The performance combines classical and neoclassical choreography, pantomime and complex variations. The dancing creations of the puppeteer Coppélius – kittens, marionettes and even a teddy bear come as the highlight of the production.

The ballet program of the Festival was presented by the stars of the Mariinsky Theatre: prima ballerinas Renata Shakirova and Nadezhda Batoeva, principal dancer Kimin Kim, soloists Konstantin Zverev, Maxim Izmestiev, Alexandra Khiteyeva, Nikita Korneyev, May Nagahisa, Maxim Zyuzin, Roman Belyakov, Yaroslav Baibordin, Vlada Borodulina, Philipp Stepin. Those days, the conductor’s stand of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage was occupied by the Mariinsky Theatre conductor Arseny Shuplyakov.

It is worth pointing out that on the previous days, from October 29, 2024 to November 3, 2024, opera masterpieces from the IX International Mariinsky Far East Festival program were presented on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Several operas from the Primorsky Stage repertoire were performed, including The Enchanted Wanderer by Rodion Shchedrin and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. The high-profile premieres from St. Petersburg, such as the epic opera drama Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi and the comic opera La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini, were in the focus of the public’s attention. The performance of Giacomo Puccini’s famous Turandot, dedicated to the 86^th anniversary of Primorsky Region, came as an extra event for the audience.

The leading parts were performed by the Mariinsky Theatre opera soloists Tatiana Serjan, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Yakov Strizhak, Olga Maslova, Zinaida Tsarenko, Tsvetana Omeltchuk, Isabella Andriasyan, Anna Knyazeva, Denis Zakirov, Vladimir Feliauer, Sergei Romanov, Denis Begansky, Svetlana Karpova, Klim Tikhonov, Miroslav Molchanov, Viktor Korotich, and by the soloists of the Primorsky Stage Yevgeny Plekhanov, Ilya Astafurov, Tatiana Makarchuk, Liliya Kadnikova, Alexei Repin, Vsevolod Marilov.

In total, this year’s Festival program attracted more than 15,000 spectators.

The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre presents its playbill until the end of the theatre season 2024/25. The audiences are in for colorful musical events, the return of favorite performances, children’s operas and the highlights of the repertoire. 

In February, the opera playbill will be featuring a grand marathon of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpieces. In addition to La traviata, Rigoletto and Aida, the public will enjoy operatic rarities. On February 16, 2025, Don Carlo will be performed; on February 20, 2025, Macbeth. On February 23, 2025, the great “opera in canonical dress”, Requiem, will be performed. The final chord of the series of events will be a concert version of the opera Il trovatore. It will be performed for the first time by the Primorsky Stage opera soloists on March 1, 2025.

The eventful playbill also includes the latest opera premieres of the Primorsky Stage. Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera buffa Don Pasquale will be performed on March 21 and 23, 2025, and on April 25 and 27, 2025. Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s serenest opera, Iolanta, will be performed on January 18, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, as well as on April 18, 2025. In addition, the public will enjoy one of the most dynamic and cheerful repertoire pieces, Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges, on January 10, 2025, March 12, 2025 and May 11, 2025.

The ballet playbill features performances that will suit every taste. Among the classic gems are Raymonda by Alexander Glazunov (January 17, 2025, March 8 and 9, 2025, May 17, 2025), Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus (January 19, 2025, March 13, 2025, April 24, 2025), and Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam (March 6, 2025, May 3, 2025). The series of colorful performances will be complemented by the vibrant and dynamic ballet Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) by Rodion Shchedrin (January 11, 2025, March 29, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00).

Important holidays and milestone anniversaries will be marked by special musical events. On May 9, 2025, the concert version of Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor will be performed, and on May 18, 2025, a large-scale concert “Tchaikovsky – 185” will be held, dedicated to the anniversary of the great Russian composer.

Some events of the rest of the 2024/25 season will be announced separately. Theatre-goers can find out more about the playbill on the Theatre’s website.

From October 29 to November 3, 2024, the opera program of the IX International Mariinsky Far East Festival was taking place, featuring modern and classical opera masterpieces. The audience of the Far East was treated both to the Primorsky Stage repertoire, that is, The Enchanted Wanderer by Rodion Shchedrin and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, and to vibrant premieres from St Petersburg: the historical opera drama Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi and the comic opera La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini. During the Festival, the program was supplemented by another event, the famous Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. In total, more than 8,500 spectators have attended the opera part of the Festival.

To commemorate the birthday of the outstanding modern composer Rodion Shchedrin, on October 29, 2024, the Festival started with a brilliant work by the master, The Enchanted Wanderer opera. The full version of this masterpiece is currently available in just two cities in the world, St Petersburg and Vladivostok. The main parts were performed by the Primorsky Stage soloists Yevgeny Plekhanov, Ilya Astafurov and Tatiana Makarchuk. The program continued with Italian opera pearls, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and, for the first time in Vladivostok, Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi. The performances featured the famous Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev and the Primorsky Stage Chorus. The main parts were performed by soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre: Tatiana Serjan, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Yakov Strizhak, Olga Maslova and Zinaida Tsarenko.

During the Festival, maestro Valery Gergiev decided to present another musical gift to the public of the Far East: on November 1, 2024, the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini, Turandot, was performed on the Primorsky Stage, dedicated to the 86^th anniversary of the founding of the Primorsky Region. The title part was performed by the Mariinsky soloist Olga Maslova, one of the most brilliant performers of the part of Turandot on the world opera stage.

The Festival closed with the premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s sparkling opera buffa La Cenerentola. All three performances were sold out and received thunderous applause from the audience. The spectacular performance was presented by the Mariinsky soloists, many of whom were performing in Vladivostok for the first time: Tsvetana Omeltchuk, Isabella Andriasyan, Anna Knyazeva, Denis Zakirov, Vladimir Feliauer, Sergei Romanov, Denis Begansky, Svetlana Karpova, Klim Tikhonov, Miroslav Molchanov, Viktor Korotich, Yakov Strizhak. The premiere performances were accompanied by the Mariinsky Chamber Chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov.

Let us remind you that this year the IX International Mariinsky Far East Festival consists of two parts. The ballet program will be taking place from November 14 to 17, 2024 on the Primorsky Stage. The audience will enjoy the premieres of the Mariinsky Theatre performed by the leading soloists of the St Petersburg ballet company: Anyuta set to music by Valery Gavrilin (November 14 and 15, 2024) and Coppélia by Leo Delibes (November 16, 2024 and November 17, 2024 at 14:00 and 19:00).