Far Eastern premieres of performances by the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater and performances by foreign artists await viewers of the IV International Far Eastern Mariinsky Festival.
The festival on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater will be opened by Reinhold Glier’s ballet The Bronze Horseman, staged by Yuri Smekalov. The main roles will include the star staff of the Mariinsky ballet troupe, including the winner of the Russia-Culture television project, the Big Ballet, Renata Shakirov, and the Prime Minister of the Mariinsky Theater and the Bavarian State Ballet, Vladimir Shklyarov.
On Saturday and Sunday, for the first time on this stage, the ballet Leo Delibes “Silvia” will be presented in the choreography of Frederick Ashton. Stars and new big names of the Mariinsky Theater will also perform here. Also two creative evenings of premieres of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater Kimin Kim and Vladimir Shklyarov will take place. Artists will show one-act ballets, choreographic miniatures and famous numbers.

The festival’s concert program will be opened on July 28 by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the famous violinist and conductor Lorenz Nasturika-Gershovichi and the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater. The Stradivarius ensemble under the direction of Nasturiki-Gershovichi plays unique ancient instruments created by the masters of the Cremona school. His concert will take place in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on July 30, and in Vladivostok on August 2.
On Tuesday, July 30, the Japanese pianist, laureate of international competitions Canon Matsuda will perform with the consolidated symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and the Seaside scene conducted by Shizuo Kuwahara. On August 4, Japanese violinist Miura Fumiaki will perform with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

At the festival, you can also hear the Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Xia Xiaotang, the chief conductor of the collective, and Anja Tansu, a young pianist from China.
In the festival’s festival bill are the Far Eastern premieres of the operas Lucia di Lammermoor and Parsifal, as well as the concert performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera The Sorceress. Among the performances of the Seaside scene at the festival, guests will see Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Tsar’s Bride”, Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” and Giuseppe Verdi’s season premiere – Aida.