From September 17 to 23, 2024, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will go on a massive tour in Moscow. During the tour, the company will present the operas The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, and the ballets Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam, The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, and Phaedra. The upcoming performances will be the first performances of the Primorsky Stage Opera Company at the Bolshoi Theatre. The performances will feature the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus of the Primorsky Stage.
On September 17, 2024, the tour will open with The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, directed by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev and designed by Pyotr Okunev. The main parts will be performed by the Primorsky Stage soloists Laura Bustamante, Alina Mikhailik, Roman Krukovich, Sergei Pleshivtsev, Evgeny Plekhanov, and Alexei Kostyuk. The part of Grigory Gryaznoy will be performed by soloist from St Petersburg Vyacheslav Vasiliev. Pavel Smelkov will take the conductor’s baton.
The operatic portion of the tour will continue with one of the largest-scale performances of the Primorsky Stage, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida directed by Alexey Stepanyuk. The performances will take place on September 19 and 22, 2024. On September 19, 2024, the primary aria will be performed by Olga Maslova, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg; along with her, soloists of the Primorsky Stage Opera Company Laura Bustamante, Marat Mukhametzyanov, Evgeny Plekhanov and Sergey Pleshivtsev will take the stage. On September 22, 2024, the main parts will be performed by Alena Diyanova, Tatyana Makarchuk, Sergey Krylov, Bat-Erdene Dorjtseden and Sergey Pleshivtsev. Pavel Smelkov will take the conductor’s baton.
The Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage performed at the Bolshoi Theatre for the first time last September. At that time, the Historical Stage successfully hosted Fikret Amirov’s A Thousand and One Nights, a ballet based on the famous Arabian fairy tales. This year, the company will present three productions on the New Stage. On September 21, 2024, at 14:00 and 18:00, there will be performances of Adolphe Adam’s adventure ballet Le Corsaire. The performance includes carefully preserved fragments of the legendary choreography of Marius Petipa, supplemented by scenes and ensembles by Eldar Aliev. At 14:00, the main parts will be performed by the leading soloists of the Primorsky Stage Irina Sapozhnikova, Viktor Mulygin, Liliya Berezhnova and Sergey Amanbaev; at 18:00, Shizuru Kato, Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov will enter the stage. The part of Medora will be performed by the St Petersburg prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre Renata Shakirova. Vitaly Shevelev will take the conductor’s stand.
On September 23, 2024, the Moscow public will be treated to an evening of one-act ballets. The New Stage will present Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird, a striking example of modern art as interpreted by the Ballet Artistic Director of the Primorsky Stage, Eldar Aliev. He created his own version of the script, combining several popular fairy tales and staging the performance in a neoclassical style. Another pearl of this tour is the ballet Phaedra by Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt based on the tragedy by Euripides. Of the whole world, today it is performed only in Vladivostok.
