The performance of the opera Prince Igor on April 9 will be dedicated to the stage director Irkin Gabitov, Honoured Artist of Russia, who is celebrating his 70th birthday this year. Irkin Gabitov, a student of Roman Tikhomirov and Isaak Glikman at the Leningrad Conservatory, started working with the Mariinsky Theatre in 1988, after having worked at the Abay Kazakhstani State Academic Opera and Ballet House (Almaty). As the principal stage director of the Abay Opera House, Gabitov staged the productions of Maria Stuarda, Eugene Onegin, Carmen and Oratorio Pathétique.
At the Mariinsky Theatre, Gabitov has worked on productions of the operas Kashchei the Immortal (1994), Tosca (1995) and Prince Igor (1996). He has also staged productions on the Mariinsky Theatre tours, including Prince Igor (Greece), Salammbô (Mérida, Spain), Tosca and Prince Igor (Savonlinna, Finland), Maddalena (Mikkeli, Finland), Un ballo in maschera (Cyprus), Turandot, Madama Butterfly and La bohème (Baden-Baden), Prince Igor (Japan), Turn of the Screw (Finland), and War and Peace (Washington).
Many of his productions are seen on the playbills of many theatres in Russia and its neighboring countries, namely the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Theatre of the Russian Army, Opera and Ballet theatres in Bashkortostan, Yerevan, Kazakhstan, and the Primorsky region. Gabitov’s production of Le nozze di Figaro in Yekaterinburg received a Golden Mask award nomination. His productions at the Tsaritsyn Opera and the Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet have enjoyed critical acclaimation. April 2017 will see the premiere of a new Pagliacci production staged by Gabitov.
Every production by Irkin Gabitov carries a message of his own, featuring ethier an unexpected twist or an original nuance. His contribution into the art of theatre was honoured by the Philantropy Club of Kazakhstan that presented Gabitov with a Platinum Tarlan independent national award in 2003. In 2006, Irkin Gabitov was granted the title of Honoured Artist of Russia.
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