In the new season the Mariinsky Theatre continues to honour the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose 165th anniversary is being widely celebrated this year. At the beginning of September Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present works by the symphonic genius at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, while a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform under maestro Gergiev on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
The first concert at Zaryadye will take place on 6 September and feature Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies, with soprano Anastasia Kalagina as soloist. On 7 September the programme will include the First and Seventh symphonies. On 9 September the Moscow audience will hear one of Mahler’s most monumental and emotionally charged works – the Second Symphony (Resurrection), with soloists Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) and Zinaida Tsarenko (mezzo-soprano). On 10 September, again with Zinaida Tsarenko, the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will play Mahler’s Third Symphony – one of the most complex masterpieces of the Austro-German symphonic tradition.
On 8 September at the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will be conducted by Valery Gergiev in a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Conceived by the composer as the “symphony of symphonies”, it crowns the epic symphonic cycle that Mahler created over the course of two decades. The work requires enormous performing forces: a greatly expanded symphony orchestra, organ, two mixed choirs, a boys’ choir and a group of soloists. Its world premiere took place in Munich on 12 September 1910 and was met with triumphant acclaim.
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