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The XXIII Stars of the White Nights festival is being run with a
focus on Tchaikovsky to mark one hundred and seventy-five years since the birth
of the great Russian composer. The festival opens with a new production of the
opera The Queen of Spades directed
by Alexei Stepanyuk and
conducted by Valery Gergiev. All of Tchaikovsky’s operas and ballets in the theatre’s repertoire
will also be performed at the festival – Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Mazepa, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and
The Nutcracker.
One
special facet comes with the rounds of the vocalists at the International
Tchaikovsky Competition which will take place at the Mariinsky-II. The third round and the gala
concert will be held at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. Jury members  Olga Borodina and Mikhail Petrenko, pianists Barry Douglas and  Denis Matsuev, cellist Lynn Harrell
and violinists Leonidas Kavakos and
James Ehnes will be performing recitals as well as together
with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gergiev.
Festival premieres
include a new production of Verdi’s opera La traviata (directed by
Claudia Solti and designed by Isabella Bywater), a concert performance
of Dallapiccolla’s opera Il prigioniero and the premiere of Maxim Petrov’s one-act ballet Le Divertissement
du Roi, specially staged for Principal Dancer Igor Kolb.
As always, performances at the
Mariinsky Theatre will feature international opera stars including Ferruccio Furlanetto, Rafał
Siwek, Vitaly Kovalev, Oksana Dyka, Mikhail Kazakov, Albina Shagimuratova, Maria Guleghina, Tatiana Serjan, Marco Berti,
Gevorg Akopyan, Asmik Grigorian and Aleksandrs Antonenko. At the Concert Hall and at
the new theatre there will be concert with such outstanding international
musicians as Daniil Trifonov, Pinchas Zukerman, Ilya Gringolts, Pyotr Laul, Alexei Volodin, Christian Blackshaw. The festival will see several monograph programmes – the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen under Paavo Järvi
in two concerts of all of Brahms’ symphonies, Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder will be
appearing as a soloist and conductor in nine Mozart concerti and
the Atrium quartet will be
performing Beethoven’s “Russian” quartets.
The Mariinsky Orchestra will
be conducted by world-renowned conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Emmanuel Villaume, Vladimir Ashkenazi and John
Axelrod.
Over the sixty-eight days of the festival at the theatre’s three
main venues alone there will be one hundred and seventy-five concerts and
performances.  
About "The Stars of the White
Nights" Festivals
The Stars of the White Nights is one of the brightest stars of
the music and theatre universe and has emerged to be one of the most popular and
grandiose music forums in its context and scale.
The Stars of the White
Nights Festival was created in 1993 by Maestro Valery Gergiev,
Mariinsky Theatre Artistic and General Director. Maestro Gergiev says that he
conceived the first Festival as a "musical gift" to the city from the Mariinsky
and its star-artists. From the very beginning the Festival has been focused on
the masterpieces of the world's music discovering for its audience some rarely
performed or undeservedly forgotten pieces.
The Stars of the White Nights
Festival has gained in strength, popularity and international acclaim. The
duration for the Festival it has expanded from ten days to three months during
the last sixteen year. Renowned conductors and star-artists take as great honour
the invitation to perform at the Stars of the White Nights. Each year the
Festival programme includes the Theater's finest opera and ballet productions,
great symphonic works, masterpieces of chamber music and new premieres.
During the last years the Festival programme has included the
works created by the great classical composers – Beethoven symphonies, Prokofiev's and Tchaikovsky's operas, ballets and symphony music.
Major events at the Stars have included the production of Wagner's Der Ring des
Nibelungen, in addition to the Shostakovich and Mahler Symphonies
series.
This festival is a must for ballet, opera and classical music
amateurs. The annual Stars of the White Nights Festival takes an inspiration for
its name from the short summer season when the sun never sets, and the beauty of
St-Petersburg White Nights contributes to the festival's special atmosphere and
its world-class programme of concerts, as audience comes out of the historic
theatre at midnight into daylight to stroll along the streets of the theatrical
setting of St Petersburg.
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