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On May 7, 2025, the music world celebrated the 185^th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a Russian music genius and one of the composers whose works are most often performed all over the world. On the occasion of the high-profile anniversary, special music events will be held at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in May.

On May 18, 2025, the large symphonic concert will be given in the Great Hall by the guest violinist Ravil Islyamov, recipient of the 2^nd prize and the Silver Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition. Accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of the Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov, he will perform early and mature works by the composer. The audience will be able to enjoy the Romance in F minor for piano, which was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in his early years of living in Moscow when he had a passion for the French soprano Désirée Artôt. The composer dedicated his instrumental miniature reflecting his personal feelings, to her. Besides, the Violin Concerto, the only concerto for violin in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s career and one of his best-known compositions, which is included in repertoires of world leading violinists, will be performed. The evening will end with the famous Symphony No. 4, which was created as a result of the composer’s severe emotional crisis and opened a new stage in his life and work. 

On May 29, 2025, Tchaikovsky’s sacred compositions, including the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, will be for the first time performed at the Primorsky Stage. The Liturgy written in July 1878 became a landmark in music, since for the first time after Dmitry Bortniansky a Russian composer turned to sacred music. However, unlike other composers, Tchaikovsky intended to “preserve those ancient church chants in their original form”, having written both the main canticles and all litanies, brief devotions and choristers’ responses to the clergy’s exclamations. The Liturgy and other selected sacred compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be performed by the Mariinsky Chorus of the Primorsky Stage under the direction of the Principal Chorus Master Larisa Shveikovskaya. 

On May 31, 2025, opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present the concert programme Tchaikovsky – 185. Gala concert of romances. The public will be able to acquaint themselves with the composer’s rich vocal legacy. The romances, which Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed during all his life, feature a great variety of genres and themes and are a kind of the composer’s lyrical diary. The Gala concert will be a completing event of the season for the team of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre presents the program of events marking the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

On May 7 and May 8, 2025 at 17:00, soloists of the Theatre’s Opera Company will perform beloved wartime songs in the Chamber Hall. These marching, lyric and heroic songs were born on the front and in the rear from the beginning to the end of the war. The musical memorials of the Great Patriotic War will be presented by such opera singers as Anna Barkhatova, Anastasia Kikot, Irina Kolodyazhnaya, Roman Krukovich, Alexei Smirnov, Gennady Akhmedov, Dmitry Nelasov, Nikita Odalin, and Sergei Pleshivtsev. The programme will include songs by Isaak Dunayevsky, Konstantin Listov, Valentin Levashov, Boris Terentyev, Bulat Okudzhava, and other composers.

On May 9, 2025 at 19:00, the monumental opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin will be performed in the Great Hall. The libretto is based on the early Russian epic The Tale of Igor’s Raid. The composer adapted the poem by himself while composing the music and writing the poetics almost simultaneously. At the same time, he studied other sources concerning discords and wars between Russian princes, battles and cooperation between Prince Igor and Polovtsian Khans. When composing his opera, Alexander Borodin as a learned amateur adhered to the European pattern well known to him, namely: a large French opera with a plenty of choruses, dramatic scenes and extensive monologues. However, having shared his friends’ likes and dislikes in the Mighty Handful, the composer charged melodies with Russian intonations and Oriental motifs. Nowadays, even those who have never visited an opera theatre are familiar with the chorus “Glory to the beautiful Sun” or Igor’s aria “No sleep, no rest for my tormented soul”. The slaves’ chorus “Fly away on the wings of the wind” has become a worldwide hit and part of the mass culture.

Prince Igor was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in October 1890, and the premiere was a great success. At the Primorsky Stage in Vladivostok, Alexander Borodin’s masterpiece was presented in concert in May 2023. At the upcoming concert the opera will be performed by such soloists as Marat Mukhametzyanov, Irina Novikova, Laura Bustamante, Alexei Kostyuk, Vladislav Chibirev, Bat-Erdene Dorjtseden, and Sergei Pleshivtsev. The Orchestra will be conducted by Pavel Smelkov.

From April 20, 2025 to April 29, 2025, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre held one of the main musical events of this spring in the Far Eastern Federal District, namely: the II Far East Easter Festival under the auspices of the XXIV Moscow Easter Festival.

This year the Primorsky Stage toured about 3,000 kilometers, appearing for the first time in the Jewish Autonomous and Amur Regions and later returning to bring new concerts to Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories. The tour embraced Vladivostok, Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur to gather audiences of more than 5,000 at its venues.

The Festival started in Vladivostok on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. At the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyrical opera Iolanta was presented in the production staged by Anna Shishkina and designed by Pyotr Okunev who became a nominee for the Golden Mask prize for the best Set and Costume Designer’s work that day. At the same venue on April 22, 2025, the Easter Concert was given by opera soloists, singers of the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage, members of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of the Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov and the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy under the direction of its regent Elena Kokhanovskaya. The Easter Concert completed the series of largest festive events in Vladivostok and opened the tour of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

At the tour concerts, opera soloists together with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage performed works by Russian composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev and Alexander Smelkov as well as compositions and arrangements by Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Primorsky Stage.

The first concert was given at the Spassk-Dalny Town Folk Culture Center “Primorye”. The next stop was in Khabarovsk. The tour team appeared at two venues: the Trade Union Palace of Culture and the Eastern Military District House of Officers where the musicians gave a charity concert for military personnel and their families.

Then, as part of the Far East Easter Festival, concerts were for the first time given at the Birobidzhan Regional Philharmonic Hall and the Blagoveshchensk City Public Cultural Center.

The last point on the tour map of the Festival was Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Two bright events were held there on the same day. The musicians performed Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic tale for children Peter and the Wolf in the afternoon, and the program “Tchaikovsky – 185” was presented in the evening.

For 7 Festival days, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre gave 9 performances. Moreover, Yevgeny Plekhanov, a soloist of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, held master classes for vocalists at the Knauf-Kaminskaya Central Children’s Art School in Blagoveshchensk and at the College of Art in Khabarovsk, and Alexei Zhurba, a member of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage, gave a master class for Khabarovsk trombonists.

On May 23 and May 25, 2025, a stage version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore will be for the first time presented at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The primary roles will be performed by soloists of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage. The Orchestra will be under Pavel Smelkov’s baton.

Il trovatore won fame and national affection immediately after it had been premiered in 1853. The opera is the richest material for the four voice types and the chorus and is highly emotional. The somber romantic drama unfolds on the stage where two brothers, not suspecting their blood relationship, become implacable rivals in love and power.

“Il trovatore takes rank as one of the most successful operas even among the works by such genius as Giuseppe Verdi. The repertoire of our Theatre already includes some beautiful works by the Italian maestro, but the fact that we are planning so high-profile premiere indicates that our company develops and grows and is replenished with new unique voices with which we are able to carry out such music project. This opera is written in a traditional manner and includes many solo declarations, arias, duets, tercets and large ensembles, but if compared with other Verdi’s masterpieces, the composer’s technique is here distinguished with unusually emotional expressiveness. I am sure that every spectator will receive a store of artistic impressions,” said Irina Soboleva, Artistic Director of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The soloists are also being prepared by Maria Nikitina, Italian Language Coach at the Mariinsky Theatre.

“With no false modesty, I must say that now the voices of soloists of the Primorsky Stage are world-class voices. The company is the strongest one, and besides having vibrant voices, each soloist is an interesting personality, and it is very important for performing operas by Giuseppe Verdi. Moreover, the singers are so adapted for bel canto that they can catch at once the most delicate gradations of performance. The repertoire, which they have learned and performed earlier, is a great base for work on today’s premiere,” Maria Nikitina emphasized.  

It should be noted that nowadays the repertoire of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is decorated with a significant collection of works by Giuseppe Verdi including his operas La traviata, Rigoletto, Aida, Don Carlo and Macbeth and his famous sacred composition Messa da Requiem. In February and March 2025, these compositions were performed as part of the large-scale music project Verdi Marathon, including Il trovatore which was performed in concert.

Lada Sartakova, Denis Klepikov, Vladislav Rzhevsky and the Coach-repetituers Natalia Raldugina and Alexander Kurkov became prize-winners at the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers, held in Yoshkar-Ola from April 19 to April 26, 2025.

Now the winners for the Classical Dance nomination and Special Michael Fokine nominations are announced. The first soloists of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov, received 1st prizes in the Duet nomination (senior group). Vladislav Rzhevsky, a dancer of the Ballet Company, was awarded special prize for the best choreography of a dancing performance specially staged for the Competition. Moreover, the Coach-repetiteur Natalia Raldugina and the Ballet Director Alexander Kurkov, Honored Artist of Russia, were awarded special prize for coaches successfully preparing participants in the Competition (senior group). 

This year the Competition is dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of Michael Fokine, an outstanding ballet dancer, choreographer and educator. The competitive selection of participants included several rounds. Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov were distantly selected though the entry list included 120 applicants from 23 Russian cities, and later they successfully demonstrated their skills in live contests.

For the Classical Dance nomination, the dancers performed pas de deux from The Nutcracker and pas d’esclave from Le Corsaire choreographed by Eldar Aliev. As part of the Special Michael Fokine nomination, the soloists presented the contemporary choreographic piece QuintAv to music from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, which was choreographed by Vladislav Rzhevsky.

The events of the saturated May playbill begin from the very first days of the month. The May holidays will be decorated with Adolphe Adam’s famous ballets Giselle on May 1, 2025 and Le Corsaire on May 3, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sparkling opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro on May 2 and May 4, 2025 and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s timeless classical ballet Swan Lake on May 8, 2025. The 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be marked with special events. On May 7 and May 8, 2025, beloved popular wartime songs will be performed by opera soloists of the Primorsky Stage in the Chamber Hall. On May 9, 2025, the Primorsky Stage will in concert present Alexander Borodin’s monumental opera Prince Igor where patriotism, courage and military virtue are main themes of the epic composition.

The premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore will be the biggest event of the opera playbill. The somber romantic drama will unfold on the stage where two brothers, not suspecting their blood relationship, become implacable rivals in love and power. The opera music is distinguished by bright expression, and the intensity of emotions is rising while the performance goes on, transporting the audience to medieval Spain. The closing season premiere will be performed on May 23 and May 25, 2025.

The noticeable event of the ballet playbill is the return of Fikret Amirov’s ballet A Thousand and One Nights, which rates among the 100 best performances of the Golden Pool of the Russian Theatrical Productions. Now the ballet, which is based on the famous collection of Arabic and Persian fairy tales and unites neoclassical plastic, sound of traditional instruments and incredible entertainment and beauty effects in itself, has become the most often toured one in the repertoire of the Primorsky Stage. This season it was first performed in Beijing and Oman’s capital Muscat. Vladivostok will be given a unique opportunity to enjoy the colorful performance at the Primorsky Stage on May 10, 2025 at 15:00 and 19:00.

The eventful May will cheer the public with concerts dedicated to the anniversary of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s birth. On May 18, 2025, Ravil Islyamov, an outstanding violinist, recipient of 2nd prize and the Silver Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, will appear on the stage together with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage. The programme will include the Romance in F minor, for piano, the Violin Concerto and the Symphony No. 4. On May 29, 2025, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage conducted by the Principal Chorus Master Larisa Shveikovskaya will for the first time perform the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, one of the most important sacred compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. On May 31, 2025, marking the composer’s anniversary, a grand Gala concert of romances will be given by opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under Pavel Smelkov’s baton.

The concert playbill will also surprise the public with theatrical concerts with sand animation, which will be for the first time moved to the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. On May 28, 2025, the well-known cycle Le quattro stagioni by Antonio Vivaldi will be performed. The audience will be able to enjoy a musical journey over the seasons, being illustrated with sand pictures right at the moments of performance. On May 30, 2025, the musical fairy tale Ruslan and Lyudmila in its version literarily composed and musically edited by the Theatre’s Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov, will be performed. Among the exclusive music events, there will also be a concert on the occasion of the Day of Slavonic Literature, which will be given on May 24, 2025.

The Primorsky Stage will open its doors to guest ensembles and musicians. On May 5, 2025, the Mangyongdae School Children’s Palace of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will for the first time present a concert in the Great Hall of the Theatre. On May 16, 2025, an exquisite Evening of violin music will be held in the Chamber Hall. Violinist Ravil Islyamov, a prizewinner at international competitions, will be a soloist accompanied by pianist Sholpan Barlykova. On May 25, 2025, also in the Chamber Hall a graduate concert will be given by the Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, one of the best and oldest schools of ballet all over the world.

The May playbill also includes favorite and new repertoire performances. The audiences are looking forward to enjoying bold and original productions such as Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges on May 11, 2025, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte on May 14, 2025, and Igor Stravinsky’s ballets Les Noces and Petrouchka on May 15, 2025 and chamber opera Mavra on May 17, 2025 at 17:00 and 19:30. Among the classical pearls of the second half of May, there will be Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca on May 16, 2025, Alexander Glazunov’s ballet Raymonda on May 17, 2025 and Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle on May 24, 2025.

For the youngest audience, the one-act operas for children will be performed in the Chamber Hall, including Leonid Klinichev’s The Little Prince on May 8, 2025, Sergei Banevich’s Murych the Cat on May 10, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00 and Gennady Gladkov’s Town Musicians of Bremen on May 24, 2025 at 12:00, 15:00 and 17:00.

Scenic Introductions will help to make a visit to the Primorsky Stage more exiting. Till the end of the season, the tours of the Theatre will be conducted on May 1, May 2 and May 3, 2025 at 12:00 and 17:00, on May 4, May 8 and May 10, 2025 at 13:00 and 17:00 and on May 11, May 17, May 18, May 24 and May 31, 2025.

From May 28, 2025 to June 8, 2025, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will tour in Krasnoyarsk. 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 “Leading Theatres” line of the “Great Tour” project, the ballets Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse), The Firebird and Phaedra, the operas Don Pasquale, Pagliacci and Iolanta and a gala concert will be toured at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet 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 Primorsky Stage will present its original performances and recent premieres to the Krasnoyarsk public.

The tour program will open with ballet productions. Rodion Shchedrin’s Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) will be performed on May 28, May 29 and May 30, 2025. On May 31 and June 1, 2025, the audience will be able to enjoy the original one-act ballet performances The Firebird and Phaedra. In Russia, the latter is only included in the repertoire of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage will continue the series of performances. In September 2024, the Primorsky Stage first went on its large-scale tour to Moscow to mark the opening of the season at the Bolshoi Theatre, and its tour to Krasnoyarsk will brilliantly terminate the season. The premiere of the last season – the bel canto era operatic masterpiece Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti – will be performed on June 3 and June 4, 2025. The operatic drama Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo will be performed on June 5 and June 6, 2025. This pearl of Italian verismo is originally staged and designed by Marat Gatsalov, a recipient of the Golden Mask theatre prize. On June 7, 2025, the Primorsky Stage will present Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s brightest opera Iolanta. This philosophical fairy tale of the revival of love and inner light will be presented in the production staged by Anna Shishkina and designed by Pyotr Okunev, a nominee for the Golden Mask theatre prize in 2025 for the best Set and Costume Designer’s work.

The grand gala concert will be the final event on tour. On June 8, 2025, it is to be given by soloists of the Opera Company, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Theatre.

Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov, first soloists of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, have been selected for the Competition though the entry list included 120 applicants from 23 Russian cities. Now they appear on the stage of the Erik Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre as participants in the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers.

The All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers is held in Yoshkar-Ola from April 19 to April 26, 2025. This year the artists will demonstrate their skills in the nomination “Classical dance”. The young dancers from Vladivostok will perform Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker and Pas d’Esclave from Le Corsaire choreographed by Eldar Aliev, and the contemporary choreographic piece QuintAv to music from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, which was choreographed by Vladislav Rzhevsky, a dancer of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

The All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers is held at the Erik Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre and dedicated to the 145^th anniversary of the birth of Miсhael Fokine, an outstanding Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and educator. Prof. Yury Grigorovich, People’s Artist of the USSR, a ballet master of the Bolshoi Theatre, is the Artistic Director of the Competition. The Competition is aimed to preserve the high traditions of academism and the vast heritage of classic ballet. It offers prizewinners an opportunity to take part in the International Ballet Competition in Moscow with no preliminary selection.

This year the largest music project in the region – the II Far East Easter Festival – is held from April 20, 2025 to April 29, 2025. The Festival will embrace such towns and cities as Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. As part of the forum, a total of 9 performances are expected to take place in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, the Jewish Autonomous Region and Amur Region. 

On April 20, 2025, the Festival started at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok. It opened with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s most lucid and lyrical opera Iolanta. This philosophical fairy tale of the revival of love and inner light was presented in the production staged by Anna Shishkina and designed by Pyotr Okunev, a nominee for the Golden Mask prize for the best Set and Costume Designer’s work.

On April 22, 2025, the large-scale Easter Concert will be given in the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. Opera soloists, singers of the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and members of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of the Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov will perform the cantata-mystery The Lilacs 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. The audience will be able to enjoy chants composed by such sacred concert masters as Pavel Chesnokov, Alexander Nikolski and Alexander Tretyakov, as well as music by such famous 20^th century Russian composers as Nikolai Tcherepnin, Georgy Sviridov, Sergei Prokofiev and others.

After the performances in Primorsky Territory, the Theatre team will go on its eventful tour which promises to be more expanded this year. The Festival will last 7 days and embrace 4 regions. The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will for the first time tour in the Jewish Autonomous and Amur Regions and later return to bring new concerts to Khabarovsk Territory where performances will be given in Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Moreover, one of the concerts in Khabarovsk will be a charity one for participants in the special military operation and members of their families.

The programme of touring concerts will be presented by soloists of the Opera Company and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage. It includes works by Russian composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev and Alexander Smelkov as well as compositions and arrangements by Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Primorsky Stage.

It should be noted that in 2024 the Primorsky Stage affiliated to the large-scale Moscow Easter Festival organized by Valery Gergiev, and presented the I Far East Easter Festival. Then the four cities (Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) could enjoy Russian and foreign music masterpieces. The Festival became the most outstanding event in the cultural life of the region and gave access to the world classical music art for more than 5000 people.

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.