From February 13 to 23, 2024, the Mariinsky Theatre will host the traditional winter tour of the Primorsky Stage Ballet Company. St Petersburg audiences will enjoy exclusive productions of the Primorsky Stage and, for the first time, the high-profile premiere of last season, Alexander Glazunov’s ballet Raymonda.
In total, fifteen performances will be shown on the Historical and New Stages of the Mariinsky Theatre. The series of performances will be launched on the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre with the spectacular and colorful ballet A Thousand and One Nights by Fikret Amirov. Ballet connoisseurs of the northern capital will be the first to enjoy the vibrant performance after a triumphant tour in the capital of Qatar, Doha. Oriental tales told through the language of dance will be presented to the audience on February 13, 14 and 17, 2024. The main tour program will take place on the Historical Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet-féerie The Nutcracker will be given on February 15, 16 and 18, 2024; Alexander Glazunov’s ballet about the romantic Middle Ages, Raymonda, on February 20, 21 and 24, 2024; and the dynamic performance by Adolphe Adam, Le Corsaire, on February 22 and 23, 2024.
The leading parts will be performed by soloists of the Primorsky Stage and dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre: principal dancer Timur Askerov, first soloist Renata Shakirova, soloists Anastasia Lukina and Ruslan Stenyushkin, who have repeatedly taken part in the performances of the Primorsky Stage Ballet Company. For the first time, the first soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, Maria Shirinkina, will participate in the performances of A Thousand and One Nights and Raymonda.
The tour of the Liaoning Ballet Company of China, which will take place from February 20 to 25, 2024 will, meanwhile, become a striking event in today’s cultural life of Primorye. The Primorsky Stage Ballet Company will return to its native stage in March, where it will present the pearls of its repertoire: the one-act ballets Phaedra and Carmen Suite (March 1 and 16, 2024), ballets Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) by Rodion Shchedrin (March 3, 2024), Don Quixote (March 7, 2024) and La Bayadère (March 9, 2024) by Ludwig Minkus, and Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (March 14, 2024). On March 21, 23 and 24, 2024, the Primorsky Stage will host a tour of the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre.
