The program of the first part of the VIII International Mariinsky Far East Festival, Vladivostok, is announced. This year the large-scale event will be held in a new format. From July 22 to July 27, 2023 the summer part of the annual music Festival will take place, and the Festival will continue in autumn when an opera program to be specially announced will enrich the playbill. The residents and guests of the Russian Far East will enjoy the best pieces of the Mariinsky classical repertoire, in which many favorite artists and new stars of the Mariinsky Theatre from Saint Petersburg will take part.
On July 22 and July 23, 2023 the Festival will open with the Primorsky Stage’s last season premiere – Alexander Glazunov’s ballet Raymonda with revised choreography by Eldar Aliev. The Festival playbill also includes the legendary ballets Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus on July 24 and July 25, 2023 and Giselle by Adolphe Adam on July 26 and July 27, 2023.
Leading dancers and young vivid soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre will appear on the stage, such as Oxana Skorik, Andrei Yermakov, Elena Yevseyeva, Alexander Sergeev, Yevgeny Konovalov, Alexandra Khiteyeva, Anastasia Lukina, Nikita Korneyev, Maria Bulanova, and Ruslan Stenyushkin.
The new season of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will solemnly open with the VIII International Mariinsky Far East Festival.
Russian classical operas – Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov on July 28, 2023, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride on July 30, 2023, The Tale of Tsar Saltan on August 6, 2023 and The Snow Maiden on August 25, 2023, and Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa on August 27, 2023 – will be performed at the beginning of the season. In addition, the opera playbill will include such masterpieces of Italian composers as Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci on July 29, 2023, Verdi’s La traviata on August 4, 2023 and Rigoletto on August 12, 2023, Puccini’s Tosca on August 10, 2023, Mozart’s Le nozze de Figaro on August 11 and August 13, 2023, and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus on August 18 and August 20, 2023.
The ballets that will be presented by the Primorsky Stage Ballet Company are Adam’s Giselle on August 17, 2023, Glazunov’s Raymonda on August 19, 2023, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on August 24, 2023, and Minkus’s Don Quixote on August 26, 2023 and La Bayadère on August 31, 2023.
This season will also proceed with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth. The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage prepares a new program that will be presented under the baton of Pavel Smelkov on August 5, 2023.
