From 11 to 14 December the Primorsky Stage will host the ballet programme of the X International Mariinsky Far East Festival. Audiences will be treated to Gala Concert. Carmen Suite, Don Quixote and A Thousand and One Nights, featuring distinguished principal ballerinas and soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre from St Petersburg.
The festival opens with two evenings honouring the great Maya Plisetskaya, whose artistry reshaped the language of dance, expanded the expressive range of choreography, and made the performer an integral author of the artistic statement. Her repertoire encompassed more than one hundred roles – from classical to contemporary. Works emblematic of Plisetskaya’s legacy will be presented on 11 and 12 December in the programme Gala Concert. Carmen Suite, with the participation of Mariinsky prima ballerinas Ekaterina Kondaurova, Renata Shakirova and Maria Ilyushkina.
On 13 December the Primorsky Stage will present Minkus’ Don Quixote with guest soloists from St Petersburg.
The programme continues on 14 December with A Thousand and One Nights, a vivid embodiment of an Eastern tale in music and dance featuring Renata Shakirova. Composed in 1979 by Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov, the ballet transports the audience into the world of Arab legends. At the Primorsky Stage it is shown in the choreographic version by Eldar Aliev – a Baku native who created a new edition for the Far Eastern company while preserving the full colour and poetry of the original narrative. A Thousand and One Nights is widely regarded as part of the Golden Fund of Russian Theatrical Productions.
The operatic programme of the anniversary X International Mariinsky Far East Festival took place earlier, on 10 and 11 October. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra presented in Vladivostok major works by this year’s jubilee composers – Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Gustav Mahler – as well as the recent acclaimed premiere of the Primorsky Stage Company, Verdi’s Il trovatore.
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