The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is presenting its playbill till the end of the New Year holidays.
The fall will be marked by a variety of performances and the Denis Matsuev Festival. In the New Year season, a series of performances of the most festive ballet and a special chamber program will take place.
Operas with an Accent
The autumn playbill has bright premieres in store for the audience. On September 14 and 15, October 9 and 11 and on November 6 and 8, 2024, Gaetano Donizetti’s sparkling Don Pasquale will be performed, an ironical masterpiece in the spirit of the Italian commedia dell’arte narrating the misadventures of an elderly aristocrat. On November 30 (at 14:00 and 19:00) and December 13, 2024, the audience will enjoy Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyrical and bright opera Iolanta, the composer’s last work dedicated to the poignant power of love.
The playbill will continue to inspire the audiences with selected performances. The connoisseurs of Russian classics will enjoy Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy-tale operas The Tale of Tsar Saltan (October 13, 2024) and The Snow Maiden (December 11, 2024), as well as Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyrical drama Eugene Onegin (September 7 and December 5, 2024). November will certainly delight the audiences with Italian opera masterpieces, Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (November 10, 2024) and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (November 21, 2024). The autumn season will be wrapped up by the steaming-hot Carmen by Georges Bizet (November 24, 2024) and the jovial Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 28, 2024).
Ballet with No Borders
Performances that have a huge touring geography will be back in the playbill of the Theatre. On October 10 and 12, 2024 (at 15:00 and 19:00), after successful performances in Beijing (People’s Republic of China), the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage will present Fikret Amirov’s oriental ballet A Thousand and One Nights. On October 16 and 17, 2024, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty will be performed. This fairy-tale production has recently won the hearts of the audiences in Harbin (China) and Pyongyang (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea).
The colorful palette of autumn events will not be complete without ballet classics. On October 20, 2024, the stage will be illuminated by Ludwig Minkus’s jovial and cheerful ballet Don Quixote. Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (November 7, December 19 and 20, 2024), Adolphe Adam’s Le Corsaire (November 9, 2024 at 15:00 and 19:00, December 4, 2024) and Giselle (September 12, 13 and November 20, 2024) will certainly give a romantic mood. Among the particularly large-scale and luxuriant performances available in the playbill, there are ballets La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus (November 27 and 29, 2024) and Raymonda by Alexander Glazunov (December 6 and 8, 2024). Admirers of neoclassicism will be delighted by two performances on December 12, 2024: Carmen Suite by Bizet – Shchedrin and Phaedra by Philip Glass.
Denis Matsuev Festival
On October 23 and 24, 2024, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will host Denis Matsuev Presents: Generations Dialogue Festival for the first time. World-renowned soloists and representatives of the new generation of the Russian performing school will meet on one stage.
The programme of the first evening includes works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pablo de Sarasate, Alexander Alyabyev, Henri Vieuxtemps, Sergei Prokofiev. The second day of the Festival will continue with the programme From Classics to Jazz.
Young virtuosos, prize-winners at international competitions Stefaniya Pospekhina (violin), Vladimir Karyakin (piano) and Sofya Turina (saxophone) will demonstrate their talent. The young musicians will perform together with experienced soloists: Denis Matsuev (piano), Andrei Ivanov (double bass), Alexander Zinger (drums), Yekaterina Mochalova (domra) and Borislav Strulyov (cello).
New Year Holidays
In November, the Primorsky Stage will host a series of performances of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which will commemorate 10 years since its premiere in Vladivostok on December 19, 2024. The beloved winter ballet will be performed a record number of times: 33 performances will take place from November 22, 2024 to January 6, 2025.
Some of the most jovial and festive performances of the opera playbill will also come as a boost of New Year’s mood: operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II (December 7, 2024 at 14:00 and 19:00, January 7, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, January 8, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00) and a new addition to the repertoire, Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale (December 21 and 24, 2024).
Heart-warming encounters and musical surprises are in store for the visitors of the Chamber Hall of the Theatre. The Orchestra, together with the Opera Company, are preparing a special programme for the New Year’s Eve concert, which will be announced separately. The young audiences will be able to enjoy such good-natured and optimistic operas as Town Musicians of Bremen by Gennady Gladkov (October 12, 2024 at 12:00 and 15:00, December 1, 2024 at 12:00 and 15:00, December 31, 2024, January 3, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00, January 6, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00), The Turnip by Rustam Sagdiev (October 20, 2024 at 12:00 and 14:00, November 23, 2024 at 12:00 and 14:00, December 8, 28 and 29, 2024), Murych the Cat by Sergei Banevich (November 9, December 30, 2024 and January 4, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00), and The Little Prince by Leonid Klinichev (December 14, 15 and 27, 2024, January 5, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00).
