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"The Stars of the White Nights 2010" International Ballet and Opera Festival (21 May 2010 - 21 July 2010)
Artistic Director –
Maestro Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre Opera and Concert Hall
From 21 May to 18 July 2010 St Petersburg, Russia will be hosting the
XVIII Stars of the White Nights Music Festival, which has always
enjoyed the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Over
eight weeks, the Festival will present over 90 opera and ballet
performances, symphony and chamber concerts and solo performances by
international stars of the stage.
One new feature of the XVIII Festival, which traditionally
features works by Russian and European composers in its programme, will be the
thematic three and four day programmes at the end of each week.
These unique festival weekends will be dedicated to the most important events in
the arts and classical music as well as to the work of Pyotr
TCHAIKOVSKY, Igor
Stravinsky, Sergei
PROKOFIEV, Rodion SHCHEDRIN and Frederic Chopin.
The Festival opens with a huge programme that marks the Year
of Russia in France and France in Russia. On 21 May, Valery
Gergiev will be conducting the Bizet-Shchedrin ballet Carmen Suite.
Later in the Franco-Russian weekend there will be a performance by violinist Nikolaj Znaider, a revival of the ballet Ondine with
choreography by Pierre Lacotte and a series of concerts by the outstanding
French pianist Helene Grimaud. She will be performing Ravel's Piano Concerto
together with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under Valery
Gergiev on 23 May. Grimaud's recital on 28 May and the pianist's
collaboration with Dutch cellist Clemens Hagen on 27 May will be held as part of
the Mariinsky Theatre's Artist of the Month
project.
The Festival will be presenting ballet and opera premieres,
internationally acclaimed performers and renowned orchestras as well as giving
audiences the opportunity to see and hear the Mariinsky Theatre's own top
soloists – Ildar
Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Vladimir Galuzin, Vasily Gerello, Alexei Markov, Anna
Netrebko, Yevgeny Nikitin, Yekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur, Mikhail Petrenko, Ulyana
Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Leonid
Sarafanov, Vladimir Shklyarov, Viktoria Teryoshkina and Igor
Zelensky in the most significant performances of recent
times.
During the Festival, recordings of concerts
featuring Leonidas Kavakos and of Richard Wagner's opera Das
Rheingold with Rene
Pape will be made for the Mariinsky recording label.
More
information
WHITE NIGHTS 2010: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet
theatre | Mariinsky hall plan |
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About Valery
Gergiev ARCHIVE:
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