On 16 December the celebrated living classic composer and great friend of the Mariinsky Theatre, Rodion Shchedrin, commemorates his 91st birthday. In honor of this occasion December will see a diverse array of Shchedrin's compositions gracing the theatre's stages. Many of these works, long absent from the playbill, will make the upcoming events a precious gift for the composer's admirers.
At the heart of Rodion Shchedrin's vivid and distinctive operas and ballets is almost always his own libretto. Russian literary classics, reimagined by the composer's pen, consistently find an extraordinary expression in his musical compositions.
The celebratory program kicks off on 1 December with a concert performance of Boyarynya Morozova – a choral opera in two parts for four soloists, mixed choir, trumpet, timpani, and percussion. On 3 December, the auditorium will resonate with Not Love Alone – an opera woven from a vibrant tapestry of lively ditties, tinged with irony and bitterness.
5 December at Mariinsky-2 will feature the iconic opera The Lefthander about a self-taught genius – a score written by Shchedrin specifically for the opening of the new stage in 2013. Another operatic embodiment of Nikolai Leskov's creative legacy, the mesmerizing The Enchanted Wanderer in Alexei Stepanyuk's production, will be staged on 16 December.
On 14 December the New Stage will host the opera-fairytale A Christmas Tale, dedicated to Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre. December 17th brings Dead Souls in a production by Vasily Barkhatov and Zinovy Margolin, while on 15 and 16 December the same stage presents the Anna Karenina poignant ballet drama, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The list of events will continue to be updated. For publication photos, please follow the link.
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