In March, the large-scale Verdi Marathon, dedicated to works by the famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, will continue with a grand opera and an exclusive concert program. On March 1, 2025, the concert version of Il trovatore will be performed. The plot of this spectacular musical thriller is centered on love, revenge and a fatal secret from the past. On March 5, 2025, one of the composer’s most lush and colorful operas with Egyptian-style scenery, Aida, will be presented. On March 7, 2025, the pinnacle event of the project, the Gala Verdi Concert, will take place. The soloists of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage will perform the finest solo and ensemble pieces from the composer’s operas that are not embraced by the Theatre’s repertoire, namely Nabucco, Attila, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, Lo Spazzacamino, Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera and La forza del destino. Many of them will be performed for the first time in Vladivostok.
The audience will also be treated to many events associated with the name of Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s masterpieces, which have graced the Primorsky Stage repertoire recently, will be performed in the Great and Chamber Halls of the Theatre. On the single night of March 15, 2025, the audience will enjoy the iconic and original examples of the Russian avant-garde ballet, that is, Les Noces choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and Petrouchka choreographed by Michael Fokine. On March 19 and 20, 2025, the premiere performances of the new director’s version of the opera Mavra will continue on the Chamber Stage. The performance staged by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev will create a vibrant theatrical atmosphere, combining the genres of commedia dell’arte, vaudeville and an intriguing love story.
The Theatre team has also prepared festive concerts and performances on the special occasion of the International Women’s Day. On March 8 and 9, 2025, the Great Hall will host the romantic knightly saga about love, told in the language of classical dance: Raymonda ballet by Alexander Glazunov. In addition, on March 8 and 9, 2025, the Chamber Hall will host Spring Tango gala evening. The programme will include sensual works by Oscar Strok, Alexander Vertinsky, Efim Rozenfeld, Konstantin Listov, Eduard Kolmanovsky and other composers. The pearls of instrumental and vocal music will be performed by opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage.
This spring, the Theatre will unite audiences of different ages and preferences once again. In early March, operas by Russian composers will be presented, such as The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (March 2, 2025), The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (March 12, 2025), and Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (March 14, 2025). The March playbill will continue with colorful performances with Spanish flavor: Ludwig Minkus’s ballet Don Quixote (March 13, 2025) and Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (March 16, 2025). The latter performance will be dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the opera’s world premiere.
With the approach of spring holidays, the Theatre’s playbill will be adorned with impeccable classics. Among the classical heritage performances, the audiences will enjoy Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in its updated stage version (March 20 and 21, 2025) and La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus (March 27, 2025). The masterpiece of the Italian bel canto style, the opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, will be performed twice, on March 21 and 23, 2025. During the spring holidays, fairy-tale performances for the whole family will be presented, namely Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Snow Maiden (March 26 and 28, 2025) and Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) (March 29, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00).
The emotional opera drama Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (March 30, 2025) staged and designed by Marat Gatsalov will come as the final chord of the month. This performance combines in itself the aesthetics of commedia dell’arte and the Hollywood cinema. The playbill of the Chamber Hall will also go beyond the ordinary, as on March 30, 2025, the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present the Brass Concert Orchestra Gold for the first time.
