The III Far East Easter Festival is to be held from April 12 to 28, 2026. The Festival will embrace three regions such as Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories and Sakhalin Region.
On the eve of the Festival, the renewed programme of Stabat Mater, accompanied by sand animation, will be performed by the Chamber Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage in the Chamber Hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre on April 10, 2026. The programme includes compositions by Pergolesi, Mozart and Schubert.
On April 12, 2026, the Festival opening ceremony will be held in the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok. Soloists of the Opera Company, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades in concert.
In the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage on April 14, 2026, the large-scale choral Easter concert will be given by the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, conducted by Larisa Shveikovskaya, Honoured Artist of Russia. The concert programme includes sacred music by Russian composers.
The touring part of the Festival will open with a stream of performances in Primorsky Territory. Three concerts will be given in Artyom, Partizansk and Bolshoy Kamen from April 17 to 19, 2026.
On April 21, 2026, the Festival will go on in Sakhalin Region – a concert will be given in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. On April 22 and 23, 2026, the Primorsky Stage will present world classic compositions in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Korsakov.
In Khabarovsk Territory, the performances will take place in Khabarovsk on April 24, 25, 27 and 28, 2026 and in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on April 26, 2026.
This year the programme of the Far East Easter Festival includes choral, symphonic and vocal-symphonic parts. At various concerts, the audiences will be able to enjoy fragments from the operas Ruslan and Lyudmila, Prince Igor, Il trovatore and Carmen, concert performance of The Queen of Spades, arias by Mozart, compositions by Haydn, and Symphony No. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev. The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will perform under the baton of Pavel Smelkov.
It should be noted that the Far East Easter Festival has become an annual addition to the programme of the Moscow Easter Festival, which is directed by Valery Gergiev. This year the Primorsky Stage will join the renowned music forum for the third time.
