INTERNATIONAL MARIINSKY FAR EAST FESTIVAL, VLADIVOSTOK
(24 July – 9 August 2019)

The Fourth International Mariinsky Far East Festival, which opened on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre on July 24 to last 17 days, has been finished in Vladivostok on August 9.

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, the last opera premiere of the Primorsky Stage, has been the final performance on the festival program. The major parts has been performed by leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theater (St Petersburg) and the Primorsky Stage, and by guest performers: Alyona Diyanova (Aida), Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov (Radamès), Yulia Matochkina (Amneris), Vladislav Sulimsky (Amonasro), Yevgeny Nikitin (Ramphis). Pavel Smelkov has been at the conductor’s desk.

Results of the Fourth International Mariinsky Far East Festival:

• Parade of opera and ballet stars: Maria Bayankina, Yulia Matochkina, Mikhail Vekua, Yuri Vorobyov, Alexei Markov, Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Sergey Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Stanislav Trofimov, Alexander Mikhailov, Angelina Akhmedova, Aigul Khismatullina, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Victoria Teryoshkina, Nadezhda Batoyeva, Renata Shakirova, Ekaterina Osmolkina, Timur Askerov, Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov, Konstantin Zverev, Alexander Sergeev;
• Famous conductors and prominent instrumentalists: Valery Gergiev, Shizuo Kuwahara, Pavel Smelkov, Xia Xiaotang, Justus Frantz; Tianxu An, Lucas Debargue, Kanon Matsuda (piano); Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici; Miura Fumiaki (violin);
• New names: Prize-winners of the XVI Tchaikovsky International Competition and Atkins Program scholars;
• For the first time on the Primorsky Stage: the operas Parsifal of Richard Wagner staged by Tony Palmer, Lucia di Lammermoor of Gaetano Donizetti staged by Andrea De Rosa, and concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera The Enchantress; ballets The Bronze Horseman of Reinhold Gliere staged by Yuri Smekalov, Sylvia of Léo Delibes, choreography by Frederick Ashton, Push Comes to Shove by Twyla Tharp, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort of Roland Petit, The Young Lady and the Hooligan of Dmitry Shostakovich, choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky;
• Expansion of the festival’s borders: the Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra appeared in Ussuriysk, and the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk for the first time.