The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre invites schoolchildren and their parents to performances for the whole family. Those will not only bring some extra joy to the holidays, but also will introduce the audience to the culture patterns of various countries and eras.
On March 26 and 28, 2025, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov will help you truly feel the spring. The composer has described his work as a “springtime tale”; indeed, the opera is tinted with soft lyricism and spring tones of the blossoming nature. The Primorsky Stage performance is as “cosmic” and imaginative as the Snow Maiden herself. A colorful world will come to life on stage, as seen through the eyes of a cold maiden who has become an “alien” in the land of the Berendeyans, in an original stage interpretation by Alexander Galibin and set design by Georgy Tsypin. On March 26, 2025, the audiences will get a chance to not merely attend the performance, but also to learn more about the production and creation of the opera at the Scenic Introduction class. The educational meeting with the Primorsky Stage musicologist will take place an hour before the start of the performance, in the lobby on the 5th floor.
On March 29, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) ballet by Rodion Shchedrin will be presented. Based on the famous tale by Pyotr Yershov, this performance is a perfect combination of classics and modernity, filigree performance and pantomime; the video projections and stylish designs create the magic spirit.
On March 27 and April 6, 2025, one of the most popular ballets in the classical legacy will be performed, La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus. The theatre-goers will enjoy the romantic Ancient Indian legend in the classic choreography by Marius Petipa. The picturesque scenery will be an accurate replica of the design used for the very first staging of the ballet. The audiences will be treated to oriental ballet exoticism and the brilliant academicism, which has received its eternal embodiment in The Kingdom of Shades scene from Act III of the ballet.
On April 4, 2025, the caravan of classic masterpieces will continue with the most mystical ballet of the world repertoire, Giselle by Adolphe Adam. The performance made most recently its way back to the Primorsky Stage playbill after a tour at the Mariinsky Theatre, and is now ready to once again excite the audience with the idea of all-conquering love that defies even the otherworldly forces trying to block its path.
On April 3 and 5, 2025, at the end of the spring holidays, Giacomo Puccini’s colorful opera Madama Butterfly will be performed. This time, the young connoisseurs will find themselves in the atmosphere of the “Land of the Rising Sun” and get acquainted with the dramatic story of the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. The author of the Primorsky Stage production is the famous Polish stage director Mariusz Treliński, whose performance gives a brilliant embodiment to oriental motifs and stylish Japanese minimalism.
