On July 24, 2019, on the opening day of the Forth International Mariinsky Far East Festival, the Asian versions of the official web-site of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre have been launched. Now news and announcements on prim.mariinsky.ru are available not only in Russian and English but also in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The extension of the language platform is caused by a brisk growth of tourists in Asia Pacific.
Let us remind you that the IV International Mariinsky Far East Festival is running from July 24 to August 9, 2019 at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok.
On the opening day of the Festival the Mariinsky Ballet performed Reinhold Glière’s The Bronze Horseman choreographed by Yuri Smekalov; the audience reacted enthusiastically to the performance premiered in Vladivostok. The ballet program also include Leo Delibes’ Sylvia choreographed by Frederick Ashton, which will be premiered in the Russian Far East, and the two evenings with principal dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet who are favorites with the public all over the world: Kimin Kim and Vladimir Shklyarov. The day before their appearances on the stage Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov and Ekaterina Kandaurova will take part in their meet-the-artist events.
The concert program will be adorned with the performances of: Miura Fumiaki (viola), with the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev; Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici (viola), a leader of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage; the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble that will appear in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok; Kanon Matsuda (piano) with the Combined Mariinsky Orchestra and the Mariinskiy Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Shizuo Kuwahara; Mariinskiy Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Justus Frantz, Germany; and the China Philharmonic Orchestra that will once play with An Tianxu (piano), a prize-winner of the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition.
The opera program includes the Far East premieres of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor that was staged by Andrea De Rosa and will be conducted by Pavel Smelkov, Richard Wagner’s Parsifal staged by Tony Palmer and the concert performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress with Valery Gergiev as a conductor. The premieres will feature such Mariinsky leading soloists as Albina Shagimuratova, Maria Bayankina, Yulia Matochkina, Anna Kiknadze, Mikhail Vekua, Yuri Vorobiev, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Stanislav Trofimov, and some young gifted vocalists who are Atkins Program fellows.
