"The Stars of the White Nights 2010" International Ballet and Opera Festival21 May 2010 - 21 July 2010 SCHEDULE 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.
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The Stars of White Nights 2011" International Festival will take place 23 May - 24 July 2011.
"The Stars of the White Nights 2010"
International Music Festival
21 May – 21 July 2010
Artistic Director – Maestro Valery Gergiev
The Mariinsky Theatre presents the XVIII International
Stars of the White Nights Festival.
Mariinsky Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre Opera and Concert Hall
From 21 May to 21 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.
GUEST ORCHESTRAS AND ENSEMBLES:
– the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung Whun-Chung
(11 June);
– the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo
Dudamel (15 June);
– the Moscow Soloists chamber orchestra under Yuri
Bashmet (24 June) in a programme of all of Johann Sebastian
Bach's Brandenburg Concerti;
-– the Baltic Youth Orchestra under Kristjan Jarvi (1
July);
– Polish National Ballet (3 and 4 July) with
Chopin, with choreography by Patrice Bart created especially to mark
two centuries since the composer's birth;
– the Wiener Philharmoniker under Valery
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GUEST ARTISTS:
Nikolaj Znaider, violin (22 May),
Helene Grimaud, piano (23, 27 and 28
May),
Clemens Hagen, cello (27 May),
Arkady Volodos, piano (1
June),
Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass (3 June,
Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte),
Rene
Pape, bass (10 June, Richard Wagner's Das
Rheingold),
Denis
Matsuyev, piano (16 June),
Nathalie Dessay, soprano (gala concert with the
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, 18
June),
Leonidas Kavakos, violin (22 and 23
June; the concert programme features Sibelius' Violin Concerto,
Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto and Dutilleux' Violin Concerto),
David Geringas, cello (26 June and 4
July),
Sergey Khachatryan, violin (28
June),
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor (29
June, Lohengrin),
Yundi Li, piano (30 June; the
programme features works by Frederic Chopin),
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (3
July),
Alexei Volodin, piano (6 July; the
programme features works by Frederic Chopin),
Christian Blackshaw, piano (8
July; the programme features works by Robert Schumann),
John Malkovich, actor (12
July, the mono-performance The Infernal Comedy),
Boris
Berezovsky, piano,
Maria
Guleghina, soprano |
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FESTIVAL PREMIERES:
Aram
Khachaturian. Spartacus (30 June, 1, 5 and 19 July) Choreography by Leonid Yakobson (revival of the original 1956
production)
Bela
Bartok. Duke Bluebeard's Castle (11 and 14
June) Production by the English National Opera Stage Director –
Daniel Kramer Featuring Elena Zhidkova and Willard White
Giuseppe Verdi. Attila (13, 14 and 21 July) Stage Director – William Friedkin |
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Sponsors of the Festival: General
Partner of the Mariinsky Theatre: Bank VTB Principal Sponsors:
OAO Sberbank, Yoko Ceschina, OAO GAZPROM, Concern Total, Japan Tobacco
International, BP, Montblanc, OAO MDM-Bank, BOMBARDIER BUSINESS AIRCRAFT, AFK
Sistema Sponsor: DLA Piper
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
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.
WHITE NIGHTS 2010: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet
theatre | Mariinsky hall plan |
Mariinsky Slide Show |
Mariinsky 3D View |
About Valery
Gergiev ARCHIVE:
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | History (before
2001)
SCHEDULE 21 May 2010 - 21 July 2010
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