Each year the Stars of the White Nights festival gathers world-renowned artists and ensembles at the Mariinsky Theatre. In July a series of events featuring outstanding singers, instrumentalists and conductors are expected on the theatre’s stages.
On 5 July audience favourite Ildar Abdrazakov will perform the role of Philip II in Verdi’s Don Carlo. Joining him on stage will be the golden voices of Irina Churilova, Yulia Matochkina, Najmiddin Mavlyanov and Alexey Markov.
The artist can be heard again on 10 July at the Concert Hall for the opening of the VII Ildar Abdrazakov Music Festival. The bass himself, along with participants of the Ildar Abdrazakov Summer School, will perform arias and romances by Russian and foreign composers. Mzia Bakhturidze and Evgeny Sergeev will be on piano.
The inimitable Elena Stikhina will appear three times at the Mariinsky Theatre in July. On 9 July she will perform the title part in Richard Strauss’ Salome, which has become her signature role. On 15 July the singer can be heard in the chamber recital Strauss at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, with Oksana Klevtsova on piano. And on 23 July Elena Stikhina will take on the role of Kuma (Nastasya) in Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress.
Having interrupted a long absence from the Mariinsky stage last November, the world opera star Ferruccio Furlanetto promised to return to St Petersburg for the Stars of the White Nights festival. And on 10 July the famous Italian bass will perform the role of Jacopo Fiesco in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra.
On 19 July the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, will play at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, with Denis Matsuev as the soloist.
Among the distinguished guest conductors are Alexander Rahbari and Justus Frantz. The Iranian maestro will take the podium of the Mariinsky Orchestra on 18 July performing a programme titled Transfigured Night: Masterpieces from the Turn of the Century. The programme includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), the Suite No. 1 from Grieg’s music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) and the Suite No. 2 from Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé. The German maestro Justus Frantz will appear twice: on 20 July he will conduct Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and on 16 July he will conduct Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio – this work will be performed in its entirety for the first time in the recent history of the Mariinsky Theatre.
The XXXII Stars of the White Nights Music Festival runs from 27 May to 1 August. The events of the rich programme encompass all of the Mariinsky Theatre’s St Petersburg stages. The festival’s artistic director is Valery Gergiev. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
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