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Congratulations on Great Victory Day. Eternal memory to all those who died in the Second World War striving for Peace in the World. These days, our theatre lives in an anticipation of the 20th Stars of the White Nights Music Festival and the upcoming premiere of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov that opens the Festival this year. Tonight in Moscow, the 11th Moscow Easter Festival comes to a close. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev it has presented about 150 concerts of symphonic, chamber, choral and bell-ringing programs in 36 cities around Russia as well as in Kiev. The next few days will see a number of interesting events at the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall. At the Mariinsky Theatre, on May 10th and 13th, we revive a real masterpiece of the 20th century — Arif Melikov’s ballet The Legend of Love, choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich, and on May 12th and 16th present Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, choreographed by Marius Petipa, the ballet, often considered a hallmark production of the Mariinsky Theatre. Operas presented at the Mariinsky Theatre over the next few nights include Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, performed in one evening on May 11th, rarely performed Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, on May 15th, and one of the favourites — Verdi’s La traviata performed on May 17th. At the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev will conduct Puccini’s Tosca performed in concert on May 18th, and Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, in a production by a British director Ian Judge, on May 19th. The title part will be performed by a bass-baritone Yevgeny Nikitin. This will be the last wagnerian event this season, until the end of September, when a complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen will be presented at the Mariinsky Theatre. As for events at the Mariinsky Concert Hall, take notice at concerts on May 13th, 16th & 20th. On Sunday, May 13th, violinist and conductor Rainer Honek, a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera, will present elaborately programmed concert of Austrian music that features works by Mozart and Strauss family. On Wednesday, May 16th, Valery Gergiev will conduct Schubert’s Eighth (Unfinished) Symphony and Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. On Sunday, May 20th, Mariinsky Theatre Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Michael Güttler will present Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. We wish you lots of pleasant visits to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall! |
On Sunday, May 20th, Mariinsky Theatre Opera Soloists, Chorus and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Güttler will perform Antonín Dvořák’s cantata Stabat Mater. Along with his Slavonic Dances, it was one of a few works that had brought the composer a wide recognition. After the piece’s December 1880 premiere in Prague, the response in England was so great that Dvořák was invited to conduct it there and thus started his rise to fame in the anglophone world.
The origins of Stabat Mater lie in the medieval tradition of a Good Friday service. It is divided into ten individual parts that include choruses, ensembles, solo fragments with the choir, quartets, duet and aria. The orchestra with numerous solo parts, especially the in brass section, plays an important role. The Stabat Mater has been put to music by many composers over the years, but this particular one is dripping with Dvořák’s religious faith and some of it cannot help but rubbing off on the listener. A truly unique Stabat Mater, with its original musical phrases and filled with the romantic settings of its time and inspired by family loss of exceptionally large proportions, it still comes across as one of the most personal settings ever and provides an inspiring though at times painful personal statement of faith and hope.
Michael Güttler is familiar to St Petersburg audiences: for a few years, he had been conducting a number of operas from the Western European repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre, and now returns as a guest conductor from time to time.
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| Antonín Dvořák Stabat Mater | |
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Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) Anna Kiknadze Alexander Timchenko (tenor) Ilya Bannik (bass) Mariinsky Theatre Chorus Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Michael Güttler | |
| 20 May, Sunday, 7:00PM | |
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Photo (Valery Gergiev): © Marco Borggreve
As part of the 11th Moscow Easter Festival, which comes to a close tonight, its Artistic Director Valery Gergiev presented a musical project of exceptional cultural value and great importance. At the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra conducted by the maestro and five pianists: Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Toradze, Alexei Volodin, Sergei Babayan and Denis Matsuev performed the complete cycle of five piano concertos and seven symphonies by Sergei Prokofiev. These concerts also featured fragments of other Prokofiev’s works — excerpts from his opera The Love for Three Oranges and ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella as well as Egyptian Nights incidental music (famous Russian actors Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov narrating this piece).
Four of the Festival concerts in Moscow on April 15th, 16th, 24th & 25th, have been recorded by EuroArts Music and broadcast online live at the Medici TV (“virtual concert hall”) web-site and the Mariinsky Theatre media-site. Full-length recordings of these concerts are now available for watching online at the Medici TV web-site for some period of time. You are welcome to watch and listen to our performances. Or feel free to opt for a paid subscription to watch these and other materials on the Medici TV — from virtually anywhere in the world, using a personal computer or a mobile device.
| Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatory As part of the 11th Moscow Easter Festival | |
| Works by Sergei Prokofiev | |
| Symphony No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 1 Symphony No. 5 | |
| Soloist: Daniil Trifonov | |
| Performed on 15 April Recording of the live broadcast on Medici TV | |
| Symphony No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Excerpts from the ballet Romeo and Juliet | |
| Soloist: Alexander Toradze | |
| Performed on 16 April Recording of the live broadcast on Medici TV | |
| Symphony No. 4 Piano Concerto No. 4 Excerpts from the ballet Cinderella Excerpts from the Egyptian Nights incidental music | |
| Soloist: Alexei Volodin Narrators: Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov | |
| Performed on 24 April Recording of the live broadcast on Medici TV | |
| Symphony No. 6 Piano Concerto No. 5 Symphony No. 7 | |
| Soloist: Sergei Babayan | |
| Performed on 25 April Recording of the live broadcast on Medici TV | |
| Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
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