The new, 242nd season at the Mariinsky Theatre will start on 5 September. The first month of autumn promises a parade of events featuring renowned musicians from the opera and ballet stages.
The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will first open its doors on 5 September with Valery Gergiev, opera soloists, the Mariinsky Chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra presenting Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. The concert will feature soloist Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, leader of the Stradivarius Ensemble. A daytime concert by the celebrated Baroque string ensemble under the direction of Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici will precede the season’s opening at 14:00, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence.
The ensemble and maestro will perform again on 15 September, including Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Britten’s Simple Symphony and Schubert–Mahler’s Der Tod und das Mädchen. On 25 September the Stradivarius Ensemble concert will feature a special guest – the German violist Wilfried Strehle, with compositions by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Piazzolla. The musician will also appear in concerts by the Mariinsky Stradivarius Quintet on 18 and 24 September. The events’ second special guest will be Justus Frantz (piano).
Other notable musicians in September include the Iranian conductor Alexander Rahbari. On 26 September he will present the unique programme Persian Echoes, which blends European classical music with works by composers following Eastern traditions. The programme will feature the harp concerto Persian Echoes by the Iranian composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour (soloist Elisaveta Alexandrova), Alexander Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto (soloist Timur Martynov) and Schubert’s Ninth Symphony.
On 27 September under the direction of Christian Knapp the Concert Hall will feature Holst’s The Planets and Elgar’s Cello Concerto, with the young star and winner of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Ivan Sendetsky as soloist. On 14 September the Mariinsky Theatre’s Principal Guest Conductor and Chief Conductor of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra Haoran Li will present Beethoven’s and Mahler’s First symphonies with the Mariinsky Orchestra. He will also conduct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on 12 September.
The opera season at the Mariinsky Theatre opens on 6 September with Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina on the New Stage featuring a star-studded cast including Yulia Matochkina, Stanislav Trofimov, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Skorokhodov, Oleg Videman, Vladislav Sulimsky and Andrei Popov, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Another stellar lineup awaits the audience on 8 September. Mikhail Petrenko, Irina Churilova, Mikhail Vekua, Andrei Zorin, Yaroslav Petryanik, Anna Kiknadze and Yevgeny Nikitin will perform in the 240th season’s major premiere of a new production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Valery Gergiev. In September the maestro will also conduct other Wagnerian operas: Lohengrin (16 September), Tristan und Isolde (21 and 23 September).
On 10 September renowned soprano Hibla Gerzmava will take on the title role in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. Recall that last season marked the singer’s world debut in this role at the Mariinsky Theatre. The incomparable Ekaterina Semenchuk can be heard twice in September. On 14 September the star mezzo-soprano will perform the title role in Bizet’s Carmen, and on 18 September she will take on the role of Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, both conducted by Valery Gergiev. On 22 September, to mark the 105th anniversary of Mieczysław Weinberg’s birth, his opera The Idiot will be performed in the Concert Hall, featuring Vladislav Sulimsky as Rogozhin, who performed the same role at the Salzburg Festival in August.
The season on the Historic Stage opens on 14 September with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, featuring the golden voices of the Mariinsky Theatre including Alexey Markov, Inara Kozlovskaya, Igor Morozov and Ekaterina Sergeeva.
The ballet season opens on 17 September with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, featuring the splendid Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim. The performance will celebrate the anniversary of the distinguished teacher Marina Vasilieva, who has nurtured a generation of Mariinsky ballerinas. Viktoria Tereshkina will again perform in the role of Odette–Odile on 29 September, partnered by star premier Vladimir Shklyarov. On 20 and 30 September the role of the swan queen will be performed by Oxana Skorik; and on 26 September the prima ballerina will appear as Zarema in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Asafyev. The performance is timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the world premiere and the 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
In September the Historic Stage will also host Anyuta to the music of Gavrilin featuring Nadezhda Batoeva (21 September) and Renata Shakirova (22 September at 19:00), Don Quixote by Minkus featuring Olesya Novikova and Philipp Stepin (24 September), Renata Shakirova and Kimin Kim (25 September). On the New Stage on 19 September the impressive ballet The Twelve by Tishchenko in Alexander Sergeev’s choreography will be presented. The part of the narrator will be performed by Ekaterina Kondaurova. The evening’s soloists will also include Konstantin Zverev, Nadezhda Batoeva, Alexei Timofeyev, Maxim Zyuzin and May Nagahisa.
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