The playbill of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre furnishes the events which are to take place before the end of the theatre season.
On April 5 and 6, 2024 the lyrical one-act opera Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be first premiered in 2024. Everyone will be able to immerse in the poetical tale of curing the blind from birth princess, presented in the production by Stage Director Anna Shishkina with set design by Pyotr Okunev. The short opera will be well remembered not only due to the entrancing music and the brilliant vocal parts, but also due to its happy finale. The authors of the performance have endeavored “to follow the composer” and translated the bright music into a philosophical fairy tale with a life-affirming ending. Next time the opera will be presented on April 19 and May 22, 2024.
Chamber music addicts will be able to enjoy compositions performed by the Borodin Quartet on April 6, 2024. This unique string ensemble was founded over 75 years ago. Their level of performance has been rated as a “golden standard of Russian chamber music”, and their creative longevity has been registered in Guinness World Records. The concert in which the Borodin Quartet will perform compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich will be given as part of the “All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons” program of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
The large-scale cycles will be continued in the spring. On April 21, 2024, on the occasion of the 180th anniversary of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s birth, a big concert will be given, comprising his different compositions. Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous operas such as The Tsar’s Bride and The Snow Maiden will be performed on April 10, 2024 and April 28, 2024, respectively. On April 7 and May 18, 2024 the Year of Pushkin will be marked by a new program in the Chamber Hall – Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila accompanied by sand animation. In the Great Hall, the parade of the most significant operas based on Alexander Pushkin’s works will go on: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan (May 19, 2024), Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (May 26, 2024) and The Queen of Spades (June 2, 2024), Modest Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov (May 29, 2024), and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and The Miserly Knight (May 31, 2024).
Connoisseurs of opera will certainly find a variety of performances in the playbill. In April the audience will be able to enjoy Sergei Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges on April 12 and May 3, 2024, Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo and La traviata on April 14, 2024, and Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus on April 30, 2024. In May the audience will be presented with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte on May 5, 2024 and Le nozze di Figaro on May 11, 2024, and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci on May 17, 2024.
On May 7 and 8, 2024, on the threshold of the most important national holiday, songs of the war years will be performed by opera soloists in the Chamber Hall.
In the spring, the long-awaited Fikret Amirov’s ballet A Thousand and One Nights will return to the Primorsky Stage. From the beginning of the theatre season, it was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and in the capital of Qatar, Doha. This ballet having spectacular scenery and an oriental flavor, will be performed on April 13, May 4 and May 25, 2024.
The ballet repertoire will include Adolphe Adam’s Le Corsaire (April 7, May 8 and May 12, 2024) and Giselle (April 20, 2024), Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (April 11, May 16 and May 18, 2024) and The Nutcracker (May 10, 2024), Ludwig Minkus’s Don Quixote (April 17, April 18 and May 1, 2024) and La Bayadère (April 25, 2024), Rodion Shchedrin’s Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) (April 27, 2024), Alexander Glazunov’s Raymonda (April 29 and May 23, 2024), and the one-act ballets Carmen Suite and The Firebird (May 30, 2024). The ballet season will end with the grand ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky on June 1, 2024.
