On 29 October 2023, Harbin's concert stage bore witness to the resounding finale of the Mariinsky Theatre's symphonic program under the baton of Valery Gergiev, marking the grand culmination of their most extensive and enduring tour across China to date.
The illustrious ensemble and maestro graced four cities in the Celestial Empire, delivering a series of nine symphonic concerts, one of which ceremoniously inaugurated the new concert hall at National Centre for Performing Arts, nestled in the largest park in the eastern expanse of China's capital.
The concluding concert in Harbin featured stirring excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Prior to this closing event, Valery Gergiev led an open rehearsal with the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, culminating in an invitation for several of its musicians to join the Mariinsky Orchestra for a collaborative performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
"We have been collaborating closely with our friends from China for many years. Covid disrupted this partnership for almost four years, and we are now vigorously resuming our joint projects," emphasises Valery Gergiev.
Today, 30 October 2023 the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev will perform in Vladivostok with a program titled 'Prokofiev Gala'. The concert will feature excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, the cantata Alexander Nevsky, and the great Russian composer's Fifth Symphony. The soloist is the grand prize winner, recipient of the first prize and the gold medal of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, mezzo-soprano Zinaida Tsarenko.
On 31 October 2023 under the direction of Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Theatre's Primorsky Stage will host the season's first premiere – Prokofiev's opera The Love for Three Oranges, directed by Alexander Petrov and designed by Vyacheslav Okunev.
Recalling earlier events, the opera segment of the Mariinsky Theatre's tour concluded in Shanghai: from 16 to 22 October the audience was treated to the complete presentation of Wagner's monumental tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Chinese spectators were the first to experience new stage versions of the third (Siegfried) and fourth (Götterdämmerung) instalments of the famed epic.
The St Petersburg ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theatre continues its extensive series of performances in China. The company is currently en route to Zhuhai – the final destination of the current tour. On 2 November, at the famed shell-shaped theatre, the artists will perform Minkus's Don Quixote, and from 3-5 November, the tour will elegantly conclude with a series of Swan Lake performances by Tchaikovsky, conducted by Arsenty Shuplyakov.
Concurrently, on 2 and 3 November, the ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre's Primorsky Stage will grace the stage of the Harbin Grand Theatre, accompanied by the Harbin Symphony Orchestra. The troupe will present Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, choreographed by the company's artistic director Eldar Aliev, with the renowned Chinese conductor Muhai Tang wielding the baton.
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