A rich concert programme is scheduled for this October at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Several orchestras and outstanding musicians will perform here for the first time.
On October 7, 2024, the China National Center of the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra will hold a concert here. The NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the largest and most prestigious theatre complex in China. Founded in 2010, the Orchestra regularly participates in the performances of operas and symphony programmes on its home stage and at other significant venues around the world. In October, the ensemble will perform in Russia for the first time. The Vladivostok concert programme will feature Russian classical masterpieces and works by contemporary Chinese composers. The concert will be held with the participation of soloists Luo Wei (piano) and Semyon Salomatnikov (trumpet), as part of the Cross Year of Russian-Chinese Culture.
On October 23 and 24, 2024, the Primorsky Stage will host Denis Matsuev Presents: Generations Dialogue Festival for the first time. Denis Matsuev, People’s Artist of Russia, is known to the public not only as a virtuoso pianist, but also as a public figure who supports young talented musicians. As part of the Festival, world-famous soloists, such as Andrei Ivanov (double bass), Alexander Zinger (drums), Yekaterina Mochalova (domra), Borislav Strulyov (cello), will share the stage with outstanding young performers: Stefaniya Pospekhina (violin), Vladimir Karyakin (piano) and Sofya Turina (saxophone). On October 23, 2024, the music forum will open with a Gala concert with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov. On October 24, 2024, the audience will enjoy the musical evening “From Classics to Jazz”.
On October 26, 2024, the musical marathon will continue with a performance of the Central Concert Exemplary Orchestra of the Navy commemorating the 180th anniversary of the main storyteller of Russian classics, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Considering the composer’s special contribution to the development of naval orchestras, in 1994 the oldest musical ensemble in the country was named after him. For the great classical composer’s anniversary, the Orchestra will perform the symphonic suite Capriccio Espagnol and variations on a theme from Mikhail Glinka’s romance song Why Do You Cry, Young Beauty, for oboe and military band. The programme of Part I will also include the overture from Mikhail Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar and the prelude to Act III of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. Part II will feature musical pieces by contemporary composers: Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra by Boris Diev, The Typhoon overture by Natalia Tchaikovskaya and Cruiser Varyag by Boris Anisimov, which was performed by the Orchestra during its last visit to Vladivostok in 1977. The soloists are prizewinners at Russian and international competitions Ivan Dyma (tenor saxophone) and Vladimir Vyatkin (oboe). Captain 2nd rank Valentin Lyashchenko will take the conductor’s baton.
It is also worth mentioning that last weekend, the opera soloists, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage performed a large-scale public symphony concert in the Central Square of Vladivostok in honor of the Great Consecration of the Transfiguration Cathedral, the largest cathedral in Primorye.
