A little more than two weeks left before the start of the fourth International Far Eastern Mariinsky Festival. According to the organizers, it will be held from July 24 to August 9, 2019 on the Mariinsky Theater Primorsky Stage.

The opening of the Far East premiere of Reinhold Glier’s ballet The Bronze HorsemanIn the summer in Vladivostok, a parade of stars of opera and ballet is scheduled. Albina Shagimuratova, Yulia Matochkina, Mikhail Vekua, Yuri Vorobyov, Petr, Alexey Markov, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Evgeny Nikitin, Sergey Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Stanislav Trofimov, Alexander Mikhailov, Angelina Akhmedova, Aigul Khismatullina, Icht, Zykhimovsky, Alexander Stanislav Trofimov, Alexander Mikhailov, Angelina Akhmedova, Aigul Khismatullina, and Outreach, I will have a performance in Primorye. , Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov, Alexander Sergeev. Outstanding conductors and eminent instrumentalists will present the music program: Valery Gergiev, Shizuo Kuwahara, Pavel Smelkov, Lun Yu, Justus Frantz, Luka Debarg, Kanon Matsuda (piano), Lorenz Nasturika-Gershovichi (violin).Among the features of this festival are premieres on the seaside stage of Parsifal operas by Richard Wagner directed by Tony Palmer, Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti directed by Andrea De Rosa, The Sorceress by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (concert performance), and The Bronze Horseman ballets by Reingold Glier. staged by Yuri Smekalov, “Silvia” by Leo Delibes in the choreography of Frederick Ashton. On the eve of the music forum a solo concert will be held by the laureate of the XV International Competition. P. I. Tchaikovsky, the famous French pianist Luca Debarga (July 23).The Mariinsky festival will open with the Far Eastern premiere of Reinhold Glier’s ballet The Bronze Horseman, staged by Yuri Smekalov (July 24 and 25).“Created in 1949 by Rostislav Zakharov, this ballet gained a new stage version in the spring of 2016 as part of the Mariinsky International Ballet Festival,” the organizers noted. – The choreography of Rostislav Zakharov to the artists of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater was handed over by older teachers who danced in the performance during the Soviet years, and the choreographer Yury Smekalov became the author of the new fragments of the performance. The main parts will be released on July 24 and 25: the winner of the Russia-Kultura TV channel Bolshoi Ballet Renata Shakirov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Osmolkina, Prime Minister of the Mariinsky Theater and the Bavarian State Ballet Vladimir Shklyarov and leading soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Alexander Sergeev.On July 27 and 28, the Far East premiere of the ballet Leo Delibes “Silvia” will take place in the choreography of Frederick Ashton. The main parts of the neoclassical production will involve the star composition of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, artists already known to the audience, as well as new big names.The festival also organizes two creative evenings of the premiers of the Mariinsky Ballet Company, the favorites of viewers around the world – Kimina Kim (July 26) and Vladimir Shklyarov (July 29). Artists will present one-act ballets, choreographic miniatures and numbers that have become their “calling cards”. The evening program of Kimin Kim also included the bright ballet premiere of the season 2018/19 of the Mariinsky Theater – Push Comes to Shove, staged by the legendary American choreographer Twayla Tharp. The concert program of the fourth International Far Eastern Mariinsky Festival will be opened on July 28 by the accompanist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the famous violinist and conductor Lorenz Nasturiki-Gershovichi and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra. A good tradition of the festival was the performances of the Stradivari-ensemble of the Mariinsky Theater under the baton of Lorenz Nasturiki-Gershovichi – musicians of the Mariinsky Theater, who play unique ancient instruments created by masters of the Cremona school. The concert will take place in Vladivostok on August 2.A bright continuation of the playbill will be the concert of the Japanese pianist, laureate of international competitions Canon Matsuda with the consolidated orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and the Seaside scene conducted by Shizuo Kuwahara (July 30). This evening will be another festive event in a series of concerts and performances to the 175th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to which many projects of the Mariinsky Theater and its Primorsky branch are devoted this year. On 4 August, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra will perform in the Great Hall of the Primorye Stage under Valery Gergiev. Among the well-known international teams that will attend the festival are the Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of its artistic director and chief conductor Luna Yu (August 6). In 2009, the British magazine Gramophone included the team in the top ten “most inspiring orchestras of the world” along with Berlin and London philharmonic orchestras. In addition to the concert on the Primorsky stage of the Mariinsky Theater, the Chinese team will also perform in Ussuriysk.On August 9, the world-famous conductor Justus Frantz (Germany) will be released in a double role – as a conductor at the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater and a soloist. There will be an overture to William Tell’s Gioacchino Rossini’s opera, Concert for piano and orchestra No. 21 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven.The full program of the festival is available on the Maritinsky Theater Primorsky Stage website. Note that during the festival in St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater will tour the historical stage of the Mariinsky Theater. The team will arrive in St. Petersburg for the fifth time and will present the ballet “Giselle” in choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, “Prodigal Son” in choreography by George Balanchine, “The Firebird” and “Corsair” in choreography by chief choreographer Primorskaya scenes of the Mariinsky Theater by Eldar Aliyev.