The April opera program will start off with exotic masterpieces by the Italian classic Giacomo Puccini. On April 3 and 5, 2025, the lyrical opera drama Madama Butterfly will be performed in the Great Hall, telling a story about the fate of the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. On April 9 and 11, 2025, Turandot will be performed, a powerful drama with oriental tinge. The plot is based on a Chinese fairy tale about a cruel princess who puts to death the suitors who fail to give the correct answers to her riddles. On April 9, 2025, the vivid image will be embodied on stage by the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre and guest soloist of the Primorsky Stage Olga Maslova, one of today’s most brilliant performers of the part of Turandot in the world. The opera playbill of the month will also contain operas for the whole family The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (April 13, 2025) and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 25, 2025), the pearls of Italian opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (April 16, 2025) and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (April 27, 2025). On April 18, 2025, the Chamber Hall playbill will be adorned by the witty comic opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky.
The Theatre’s concert program will surprise the audience with some exclusive events. On April 17, 2025, talented young musician, winner of the 1st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Davydchenko will give a piano recital in the Chamber Hall of the Theatre. On April 18, 2025, the pianist will perform again with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage, as part of the “Tchaikovsky – 185” Musical Night.
The Chamber Hall of the Theatre will hold several more unique concerts. On April 6, 2025, music lovers will enjoy the sophisticated Evening of French music; on April 19, 2025, masterpieces of Latin American and Argentine music will be performed in the “Melodies of the South” concert programme.
In April, the II Far East Easter Festival will be launched on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, the Festival will open with a performance of a philosophical fairy tale, the most lucid and most lyrical opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Iolanta. The Festival will continue on April 22, 2025 with the Great Easter Concert featuring opera soloists, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov, as well as the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. After the performances in Vladivostok, the Theatre team will go on a tour whose geography has expanded compared to the past years. This year, the Festival route will embrace such cities or towns as Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk and Ussuriysk. A total of 14 performances are scheduled within the Festival.
The April’s ballet program will include the best performances of the classical heritage: Giselle by Adolphe Adam (April 4, 2025); La Bayadère (April 6, 2025) and Don Quixote (April 24, 2025) by Ludwig Minkus; the lush fairy-tale ballets The Sleeping Beauty (April 12, 2025), Swan Lake (April 17, 2025) and The Nutcracker (April 26, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Some repertoire rarities are also in store, those are, Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Petrouchka (April 10, 2025), which have been recently added to the repertoire of the Theatre. Another outstanding ballet by the composer, The Firebird, will be performed on April 19, 2025 together with the neoclassical Phaedra.
Memorable events for the whole family will include “short” operas for the youngest connoisseurs. On April 6, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00) Leonid Klinichev’s opera The Little Prince will be performed. Town Musicians of Bremen to the music by Gennady Gladkov will be on the playbill on April 12, 2025 (at 12:00 and 15:00), and Rustam Sagdiev’s opera The Turnip will be presented on April 19, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00).
