On November 7, 2025, principal dancers of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Irina Sapozhnikova and Sergei Umanetc, will perform at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in a concert marking the anniversary of the outstanding ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya.
Leading soloists from theatres in Russia will perform at the gala concert dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Maya Mikhailovna. The Mariinsky Theatre will be represented by Irina Sapozhnikova and Sergei Umanetc, along with the first soloist of the St Petersburg Ballet Company Elena Svinko.
Among guest performers, there are principal dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre Dmitry Smilevsky and first soloists Denis Zakharov and Maria Koshkaryova, principal dancers of the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (MAMT) Natalia Somova and Oxana Kardash, principals of the Tatar Musa Jalil State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Amanda Gomez and Mikhail Timayev, principal dancers of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Anna Kudryavtseva and Yuri Kudryavtsev.
The programme of the night will include famous miniatures and ballet pieces from Plisetskaya’s repertoire, which have become renowned thanks to the performances by the legendary prima ballerina: Carmen Suite, The Swan, Don Quixote, The Legend of Love, etc.
Irina Sapozhnikova and Sergei Umanetc will perform the pas de deux from Act 2 of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake; this pas de deux, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov and revised by Konstantin Sergeyev, is also known as the “black” pas de deux. They will also perform the choreographic miniature Melody from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice to the music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, choreographed by Asaf Messerer.
