III INTERNATIONAL MARIINSKY FAR EAST FESTIVAL, VLADIVOSTOK
(24 July - 8 August 2018)

24 July – 8 August 2018
Artistic Director: Valery Gergiev

• Marking 200 years since the birth of Marius Petipa;
• A plethora of opera and ballet stars: Elena Stikhina, Irina Churilova, Yulia Matochkina, Mikhail Vekua, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Roman Burdenko, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Yuri Vorobiev, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kristina Shapran, Renata Shakirova, Timur Askerov, Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov;
• Renowned conductors and famed instrumentalists: Valery Gergiev, Christian Knapp, Shizuo Z Kuwahara, Pavel Smelkov, Justus Frantz, Anton Shaburov, Yeol Eum Son (piano), Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici (violin), Miura Fumiaki (violin);
• New names: fellows of the Atkins Young Artists Program and Grand Piano Competition winner Alexandra Dovgan (piano);
• Sergei Prokofiev’s monumental opera War and Peace staged by Andrei Konchalovsky in Guangzhou (China). Conductor: Valery Gergiev;
• Premieres at the Primorsky Stage: Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte staged by Yannis Kokkos, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Act I, concert performance), Richard Strauss’ Salome (concert performance); Ludwig Minkus’ ballet Don Quixote choreographed by Alexander Gorsky after Marius Petipa’s original production, The Four Seasons choreographed by Ilya Zhivoi and set to the music by Max Richter, Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky;
• Concerts of Valery Gergiev with the Youth Orchestra of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (Japan).

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