The X International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY15 April 2010 - 25 April 2010 SCHEDULE 15 April 2010 - 25 April 2010
Artistic Director of the
Festival – Valery Gergiev
From 15 to 25 April the Mariinsky
Theatre will be running its anniversary tenth International Ballet Festival –
one of the highlights of the world’s ballet season which draws balletomanes from
across the globe to St Petersburg.
The festival will see
performances by Alina Cojocaru ( Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ), David
Hallberg and Daniil Simkin ( American Ballet Theatre ), Polina Semionova (
Staatsballett Berlin ), Mathieu Ganio ( Opera de Paris ), leading Bolshoi
Theatre soloists Natalia Osipova, Svetlana Zakharova, Maria Alexandrova and Andrei Uvarov and
lead Mariinsky Theatre Diana
Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina
Somova, Viktoria Teryoshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor
Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov.
In line with tradition, the
festival opens with a premiere. This year it will be Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet
Anna Karenina with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, making it the ballet master’s latest work
for the Mariinsky Theatre. In the premiere performances the lead roles will be
performed by Diana Vishneva ( 15 April ) and Ulyana
Lopatkina ( 16 April ), two outstanding Mariinsky Theatre
ballerinas with different artistic temperaments and performing styles. They will
be partnered by Andrian Fadeyev ( 15 April ) and Yuri
Smekalov ( 16 April ).
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From 15 to 25 April the Mariinsky Theatre will be
running its anniversary tenth International Ballet Festival – one of the
highlights of the world's ballet season which draws balletomanes from across the
globe to St Petersburg. The festival will see performances by Alina Cojocaru (
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ), David Hallberg and Daniil Simkin ( American
Ballet Theatre ), Polina Semionova ( Staatsballett Berlin ), Mathieu Ganio (
Opera de Paris ), leading Bolshoi Theatre soloists Natalia Osipova, Svetlana Zakharova, Maria Alexandrova and Andrei Uvarov and
lead Mariinsky Theatre Diana
Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina
Somova, Viktoria Teryoshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor
Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov.
In line with tradition, the festival opens with a premiere. This year
it will be Rodion Shchedrin's ballet Anna Karenina with choreography by
Alexei Ratmansky, making it the ballet master's latest work
for the Mariinsky Theatre. In the premiere performances the lead roles will be
performed by Diana Vishneva ( 15 April ) and Ulyana
Lopatkina ( 16 April ), two outstanding Mariinsky Theatre
ballerinas with different artistic temperaments and performing styles. They will
be partnered by Andrian Fadeyev ( 15 April ) and Yuri
Smekalov ( 16 April ).
Ratmansky's Anna Karenina has been a ballet hit throughout Europe in
recent years. Initially staged by the choreographer for the Danish National
Ballet, it has subsequently been performed by other great ballet companies
throughout the world; it has also received the prestigious Benois de la
danse prize.
Another premiere of the festival will be the legendary Shchedrin-Bizet
Carmen Suite with choreography by Alberto Alonso. The production is
being staged at the Mariinsky Theatre with the participation of Maya
Plisetskaya, the first performer of the role of Carmen in this ballet. The
Mariinsky Theatre premiere on 19 April will be performed by Ulyana
Lopatkina. One of the festival's
highlights will be the Evening of Young Choreographers on 23
April, where three young contemporary choreographers – Edwaard Liang,
Emil Faski and Yuri Smekalov – will present their one-act ballets, created
specially for the Mariinsky Ballet Company's leading soloists – Yekaterina Kondaurova, Viktoria Teryoshkina and Leonid
Sarafanov.
Yet another highlight of the festival will be a
performance featuring by stars of the world's greatest ballet companies together
with Mariinsky Theatre partners in a programme of duets from the Mariinsky
Theatre's “gold reserves”. In Romeo and Juliet with choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky, on 17 April Polina
Semionova ( Staatsballett Berlin ) will be performing alongside Vladimir Shklyarov ( Mariinsky Theatre ); in La
Bayadere on 18 April, the lead roles will be danced by Viktoria Teryoshkina and Igor
Zelensky ( Mariinsky Theatre ) and Maria Alexandrova ( Bolshoi Theatre ); on
the evening of 19 April the title role in George Balanchine's
Apollo will be performed by Mathieu Ganio ( Opera de Paris ); on
20 April Natalia Osipova ( Bolshoi Theatre ) will be performing
Giselle together with Leonid
Sarafanov ( Mariinsky Theatre ); Swan Lake on 21
April will feature the duo of Svetlana Zakharova and Andrei Uvarov ( both Bolshoi Theatre );
and on 24 April Alina
Somova ( Mariinsky Theatre ) and David Hallberg ( American Ballet Theatre )
will be performing the lead roles in The Sleeping Beauty.
Outstanding past masters of the Kirov Theatre Tatiana
Vecheslova and Vakhtang Chabukiani are to be honoured with a performance of
Giselle on 20 April and La Bayadere on
18 April.
During the festival, there will be master classes by Michel Denart,
Principal Coach and Ballet-Master at the Opera de Paris, and Grigory Chicherin,
Principal Coach at the National Ballet Academy in Amsterdam.
The festival draws to a close on 25
April with a gala concert featuring soloists of the Mariinsky Ballet
Company and guest soloists including David Hallberg, Daniil Simkin and Alina
Cojocaru among others.
VTB - General Sponsor
of the X Mariinsky International Ballet Festival In line with
tradition, the festival is being run with the support of the Ministry of Culture
of the Russian Federation. The production of the ballet Anna
Karenina has been made possible thanks to the support of the
Deutsch-Russische Ballettstiftung. The Astoria is the recommended
hotel for festival guests.
About Mariinsky
Ballet Festivals
The International Ballet Festival Mariinsky was
launched in 2001. The Festival‘s main aim is to draw the stars of world ballet
to Russia‘s cultural capital. The Mariinsky Ballet
Company is known well beyond St Petersburg, though guest
appearances by renowned illustrious foreign dancers and companies were very rare
prior to the Mariinsky Ballet Festival.
Each year the Mariinsky Ballet Festival brings together the
world‘s best dancers and the playbill lists a programme of works performed by
various ballet companies. Since the founding of the Festival, the theatre's
stage has witnessed performances by such internationally acclaimed ballet
dancers as Vladimir Malakhov, Agnes Letestu, Aurelie Dupont,
Matthieu Ganio, Roberto Bolle, Maria Kowroski, Manuel Legris, Alina Cojocaru,
Johan Kobborg,
Paloma Herrera, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Zakharova. In line with tradition, the Mariinsky Theatre will present a premiere at the opening of the Festival, which will
conclude with a grand gala concert by stars of world
ballet.
MARIINSKY BALLET FESTIVAL 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
"Mariinsky"
International Ballet Festival 2011 will take place at the World-known Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and Opera theatre 15 - 25
April 2011. The schedule will be announced
in January-February 2011. If you are interested in playbill for 2011, just
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get the maximal 15% discount for the tickets and you will get the best seats in
each section - centrally located and front rows. Please note, that good
tickets (middle seats and front rows) are usually sold out in 2-3 weeks after
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