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On May 7, 2025 the musical world will celebrate the 185^th anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s birth. In anticipation of the great day, the Mariinsky Theatre and the Primorsky Stage announce the Festival “Approaching jubilee of Pyotr Tchaikovsky”, presenting some selected works composed by the hero of the anniversary.

In Vladivostok, the project will open with pearls of Russian ballet. On April 12, 2025 the fairy-tale ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty will be performed in the Great Hall of the Theatre. Konstantin Sergeyev’s version of the ballet Swan Lake based both choreographically and musically on the revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, will be presented on April 17, 2025. The third Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet – The Nutcracker – in the expressive choreography by Eldar Aliev, People’s Artist of Russia, Ballet Artistic Director of the Primorsky Stage, will be performed on April 26, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00.

The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under Pavel Smelkov’s baton will present the large-scale tribute concert “Tchaikovsky – 185” on April 18, 2025. Soloists of the evening will be pianist Sergey Davydchenko, the recipient of the 1^st prize and the Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, and soprano Alisa Fedorenko, a soloist of the Primorsky Stage Opera Company. The audience will be able to enjoy the famous Piano Concerto No. 1; three pieces from the piano cycle The Seasons, orchestrated by Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Primorsky Stage; Alexander Smelkov’s elegy Where Lies the Secret of Your Charms to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s poem; and the Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.

On April 20, 2025 the II Far East Easter Festival will start at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Iolanta, a philosophical fairy tale and the most lightful opera by Tchaikovsky, will be performed on the opening night of the Festival. 

It should be noted that the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will continue celebrating the anniversary of the great Russian composer’s birth until the end of May. As part of the II Far East Easter Festival, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music will be performed in the biggest cities and towns of the Far East, and special events will be held at the Primorsky Stage in Vladivostok. On May 18, 2025 the large-scale symphony concert will be given in the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. The best-known sacred composition by Tchaikovsky – Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom – will be for the first time presented by the Mariinsky Chorus of the Primorsky Stage on May 29, 2025. The vocal lyrics evening “Tchaikovsky – 185. Gala concert of romances” to be given by soloists of the opera company and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will be held on May 31, 2025.

Besides, for the great occasion, the Primorsky Stage affords an opportunity to subscribe for the thematic series of performances, which allows the public to buy tickets for most of the Festival events at a special price.

From June 2, 2025 to June 15, 2025 the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will tour in Vladivostok. Its “Great Tour” is organized by the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture ROSCONCERT, according to the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As part of the interregional line of the “Great Tour” project, the ballets Catarina ou la Fille du bandit, Spartacus and Dante’s Catharsis and the operas Il barbiere di Siviglia and Lakmé will be toured at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

According to Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, “The main purpose of the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan is to familiarize as many Russians as possible with performances of our national ensembles and theatres. New participants join the project yearly, and we are thrilled that our creative community is an ever-growing one. Thus our unique cultural traditions and our musical and theatrical schools are preserved as well as find new addicts all over Russia.”

The Theatre will go on its first “Great Tour” to Vladivostok to present some large-scale repertoire performances of various styles and genres.

“We are proud to always justify confidence and gain support from the “Great Tour” project again and again! Within this project, we have already toured in Moscow where the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre was warmly appreciated by sophisticated metropolitan audiences. Now we are for the first time going to the east of our big country and we are sure that we will be able to surprise audiences and win their hearts at the other end of Russia. For us, this tour is a higher level because we are bringing five performances for the first time! These include our calling card, the legendary titular ballet Catarina, recipient of the Golden Mask National Award Grand Prix; our pride, the most complicated ballet Spartacus choreographed by the great master Yury Grigorovich, which has been restored in the current season; and the ballet Dante’s Catharsis choreographed by Nikita Dmitrievsky to contemporary composers’ music. Besides, in Vladivostok we will present the comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia, which is a premiere of the season, and the opera Lakmé, which has not been performed anywhere in Russia over 60 years”, said Svetlana Gusy, Director of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Mid-spring will bring a variety of musical events to the audiences of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The chamber program of the Chamber Hall will invite the audiences on a musical journey where they will get acquainted with the unique sound of individual instruments.

“Orchestra Gold” concert will take place on March 30, 2025. Fiery music by Georges Bizet, Robert Elkier, George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Rodion Shchedrin and Astor Piazzolla, conveying the flavor of Spanish, Argentine and African-American rhythms will be performed by a brilliant ensemble in every sense of the word, consisting of trombones, horns, trumpets, a tuba and a rare young instrument, the flugelhorn.

On April 6, 2025, opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present an Evening of French music. The programme will include vocal pieces and instrumental works by famous French composers of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, including Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and others.

On April 17, 2025, the winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition in Piano Category, Sergey Davydchenko, will give a recital on the Primorsky Stage for the first time. This resounding victory has made the 19-year-old musician from Rostov-on-Don, a student at the Rostov State Conservatory, a true discovery of the year. The Competition has also brought the musician many touring engagements, including a tour to Uzbekistan, and performances at the Mariinsky Theatre under the conduction of Valery Gergiev.

On April 19, 2025, the Chamber Hall audience will be treated to the “Melodies of the South”, a programme consisting of Latin American and Argentine musical masterpieces. The musicians of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will perform the famous String Quartet No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Tango Ballet by Astor Piazzolla, as well as several chamber vocal pieces conveying a wide range of human emotions.

Special musical events will also take place in the Great Hall of the Theatre.

On April 18, 2025, the “Tchaikovsky – 185” Musical Night will take place, a concert dedicated to the anniversary of the great Russian composer. The soloist of the evening is the winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Davydchenko. The performance of this outstanding young pianist will be accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov.

On April 22, 2025, in commemoration of the Holy Easter, a large-scale Easter Concert will take place as part of the II Far East Easter Festival. Under the baton of Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov, opera soloists, singers of the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present The Lilacs, a cantata-mystery by the modern St. Petersburg composer Alexander Smelkov to poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva and “K.R.” (pen name of the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia). The other part of the programme will be performed by the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. Chants composed by the sacred concert masters Pavel Chesnokov, Alexander Nikolski, Alexander Tretyakov will be performed, as well as the music by famous Russian composers of the 20^th century Nikolai Tcherepnin, Georgy Sviridov, Sergei Prokofiev and others.

The April opera program will start off with exotic masterpieces by the Italian classic Giacomo Puccini. On April 3 and 5, 2025, the lyrical opera drama Madama Butterfly will be performed in the Great Hall, telling a story about the fate of the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. On April 9 and 11, 2025, Turandot will be performed, a powerful drama with oriental tinge. The plot is based on a Chinese fairy tale about a cruel princess who puts to death the suitors who fail to give the correct answers to her riddles. On April 9, 2025, the vivid image will be embodied on stage by the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre and guest soloist of the Primorsky Stage Olga Maslova, one of today’s most brilliant performers of the part of Turandot in the world. The opera playbill of the month will also contain operas for the whole family The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (April 13, 2025) and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 25, 2025), the pearls of Italian opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (April 16, 2025) and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (April 27, 2025). On April 18, 2025, the Chamber Hall playbill will be adorned by the witty comic opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky.

The Theatre’s concert program will surprise the audience with some exclusive events. On April 17, 2025, talented young musician, winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Davydchenko will give a piano recital in the Chamber Hall of the Theatre. On April 18, 2025, the pianist will perform again with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage, as part of the “Tchaikovsky – 185” Musical Night.

The Chamber Hall of the Theatre will hold several more unique concerts. On April 6, 2025, music lovers will enjoy the sophisticated Evening of French music; on April 19, 2025, masterpieces of Latin American and Argentine music will be performed in the “Melodies of the South” concert programme. 

In April, the II Far East Easter Festival will be launched on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, the Festival will open with a performance of a philosophical fairy tale, the most lucid and most lyrical opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Iolanta. The Festival will continue on April 22, 2025 with the Great Easter Concert featuring opera soloists, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov, as well as the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. After the performances in Vladivostok, the Theatre team will go on a tour whose geography has expanded compared to the past years. This year, the Festival route will embrace such cities or towns as Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk and Ussuriysk. A total of 14 performances are scheduled within the Festival.

The April’s ballet program will include the best performances of the classical heritage: Giselle by Adolphe Adam (April 4, 2025); La Bayadère (April 6, 2025) and Don Quixote (April 24, 2025) by Ludwig Minkus; the lush fairy-tale ballets The Sleeping Beauty (April 12, 2025), Swan Lake (April 17, 2025) and The Nutcracker (April 26, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Some repertoire rarities are also in store, those are, Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Petrouchka (April 10, 2025), which have been recently added to the repertoire of the Theatre. Another outstanding ballet by the composer, The Firebird, will be performed on April 19, 2025 together with the neoclassical Phaedra.

Memorable events for the whole family will include “short” operas for the youngest connoisseurs. On April 6, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00) Leonid Klinichev’s opera The Little Prince will be performed. Town Musicians of Bremen to the music by Gennady Gladkov will be on the playbill on April 12, 2025 (at 12:00 and 15:00), and Rustam Sagdiev’s opera The Turnip will be presented on April 19, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00).

The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre proudly congratulates Shizuru Kato on his appointment as the Principal dancer of the Ballet Company.

Shizuru is a prize-winner at international competitions and a true favorite of the public. In 2011–2013, the dancer studied at Canada’s National Ballet School. As the first soloist of the Primorsky Stage Ballet Company, he has taken part in tours to Harbin (China), Pyongyang (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Doha (Qatar), Muscat (Oman), and performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and also in Vladikavkaz. 

His repertoire includes the parts of Solor and The Golden Idol (La Bayadère), The Nutcracker-Prince (The Nutcracker), Basilio (Don Quixote), Conrad (Le Corsaire), Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) and many others. All those who have been lucky to watch this dancer on stage could fully enjoy his technical mastery, artistry, expressiveness and virtuosity of his performance. His dance is always captivating, and the audience truly enjoys his every appearance on stage. 

We congratulate Shizuru and wish him new prominent scenic roles and inspirations to conquer new heights!

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!”