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Here’s what’s going on this week: For the first time this season at the Mariinsky Theatre, we present the main ballet premiere of the previous season — an elegant French ballet Le Parc choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj (November 11th & 15th). Diana Vishneva will once again appear in the title part of her new project Diana Vishneva: Dialogues, which received its Mariinsky Theatre premiere last month (November 13th). Among the events at the Mariinsky Concert Hall, take a note of a rarely performed piece Chimes by Valery Gavrilin, choral symphonic work that presents the story of the human soul, man’s spiritual growth (November 9th) and Rodion Shchedrin’s opera The Enchanted Wanderer (production by Alexei Stepanyuk) performed by the Mariinsky Theatre, to a great acclaim, on tour in seven countries and recorded on the Mariinsky Label, our own record label (November 12th). In November, the Mariinsky Concert Hall will see performances by well-known guest conductors. On November 25th, Marc Minkowski, one of the finest researchers of French Baroque music, will present works by French composers Gabriel Fauré and César Franck, rarely performed in Russia. On November 30th, the young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, whose career is rising fast, will present two short operas: La vida breve by Manuel de Falla and L’Heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel. You are welcome to take part in our quiz made of 10 questions associated with a repertoire of the concerts on November 25th and 30th. The first three participants, who send us correct answers to all 10 questions will receive an award: an invitation for two persons to attend a special tour of the Mariinsky Theatre premises, including the backstage area, rehearsal classes, decorator’s rooms, etc. The date and time of your tour will be confirmed at a later point. Best of luck! The Mariinsky Ballet has just finished its
This Tuesday, Mariinsky Theatre Soloists and Orchestra and Valery Gergiev embark on a week-long on tour in Rome and Palermo. We wish you a pleasant week! |
Photo: © Philippe Gontier (Naïve), Miguel Peñalver
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| Gabriel Fauré Pavane César Franck Symphony in D minor Gabriel Fauré Requiem | |
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Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) Vadim Kravets (baritone) Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Conductor: Marc Minkowski | |
| 25 November, Friday, 7:00PM | |
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| Maurice Ravel L’Heure espagnole | |
| Torquemada: | Andrei Zorin |
| Concepcion: | Anna Kiknadze |
| Gonzalve: | Andrei Popov |
| Ramiro: | Vladimir Moroz |
| Don Inigo Gomez: | Yuri Vorobiev |
| Manuel de Falla La vida breve | |
| Grandmother: | Elena Vitman |
| Salud: | Ekaterina Popova |
| Paco: | Akhmed Agadi |
| Uncle Sarvaor: | Ilya Bannik |
| Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Pablo | |
| 30 November, Wednesday, 7:00PM | |
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| Question No. 1 | Marc Minkowski has previously worked in Russia on an opera based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Gabriel Fauré composed a suite based on the same play. Name the play. |
| Question No. 2 | Which work by Fauré has fascinated the Russian composer Taneyev? |
| Question No. 3 | How many versions of Fauré’s Requiem exist? How do they differ? |
| Question No. 4 | In many ways, César Franck for his contemporaries was the “black sheep”. Why? |
| Question No. 5 | What is the nickname Frank came to us in the memoirs of his contemporaries? |
| Question No. 6 | Which opera by a Russian composer was used by Maurice Ravel as a prototype for his one-act opera L’Heure espagnole? |
| Question No. 7 | In L’Heure espagnole Ravel uses mock orchestral effects, including sounds of deliberately distorted theme of a very famous symphony by a very well-known composer. Name the composer and the work. |
| Question No. 8 | Which piece from Manuel de Falla’s opera La vida breve found its independent life on a concert stage thanks to an Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler? |
| Question No. 9 | It is well-known that de Falla in his opera La vida breve (1904) refers to the music of Andalusia, including an ancient song genre “cante jondo”. In 1922, de Falla launched a Festival of cante jondo in Granada that featured a famous inaugural speech by Lorca. In his speech, the poet spoke of the links between Russian and Spanish music. Which of the two Russian composers he mentioned in this speech? |
| Question No. 10 | Were Ravel and de Falla acquainted with each other? |
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