10 May - 19 July 2006
The Mariinsky Theatre hosted the XIV International Stars of the White Nights Festival.
Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet theatre
Mariinsky hall plan
Mariinsky Slide Show
Mariinsky 3D View
About Valery Gergiev
Matinee performances begin at 11.30 and evening performances at 7.00 unless otherwise stated
May 2006
10, Wed
evening |
The opening of the XIV International Festival Stars of the White Nights
Russian Masterpieces
Boris Godunov
Music: Modest Musorgsky
Production: Andrei Tarkovsky
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
11, Thu
18:00 |
Russian Masterpieces
Khovanshchina
folk musical drama in five acts, six scenes (1960 Production)
Music: Modest Musorgsky
New stage version: Yury Alexandrov (2000)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
12, Fri
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
13, Sat
12:00 |
Shostakovich on Stage
Overcoat after Gogol. The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Leningrad Symphony
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Choreography: Noah D Gelber (2006), Konstantin Boyarsky (1962), Igor Belsky (1961)
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
13, Sat
20:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphonies No. 14 & 15
Conductor: Maxim Shostakovich |
14, Sun
14:00 |
Tchaikovsky Classics
The Nutcracker
ballet in two acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Kirill Simonov
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
14, Sun
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
The Nutcracker
ballet in two acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Kirill Simonov
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
15, Mon
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
The Queen of Spades
opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Yury Temirkanov
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
16, Tue
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
17, Wed
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
Mazepa
opera in three acts, six scenes (1950 Production)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
New stage version: Yury Alexandrov (1998)
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
18, Thu
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
Eugene Onegin
lyric opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
19, Fri
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
The Sleeping Beauty
ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and apotheosis
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1890)
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
20, Sat
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
The Enchantress
opera in four acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by David Pountney
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov |
21, Sun
evening |
Tchaikovsky Classics
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
22, Mon
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
A life for the Tsar
opera in four acts with an epilogue
Music: Mikhail Glinka
Production by Dmitry Chernyakov
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
23, Tue
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
Serenade. La Valse. Ballet Imperial
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel
Choreography: George Balanchine
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
24, Wed
evening |
The Turn of the Screw
opera in two acts with a prologue
Music: Benjamin Britten
Production by David McVicar
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov |
25, Thu
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Don Quixote
grand ballet in four acts (seven scenes) with a prologue
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (1902)
Conductor: Vasily Kan |
26, Fri
evening |
Imperial Ballet
La Bayadère
ballet in three acts
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1877)
Revised choreography: Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani (1941)
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
27, Sat
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
The Nutcracker
ballet in two acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Kirill Simonov
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest |
28, Sun
morning |
Mariinsky Ballet
The Magic Nut
ballet in two acts
Music: Sergei Slonimsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Donvena Pandoursky
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
28, Sun
20:00 |
Italian Masterpieces
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L´albergo del giglio d´oro
dramma giocoso in one act
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Production by Alain Maratrat
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
29, Mon
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
30, Tue
evening |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Lutoslavsky. Piano Concerto
Shostakovich. Symphony No 11
Soloist: Sergei Babayan (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
31, Wed
evening |
Shostakovich on Stage
Katerina Izmailova
opera in four acts, nine scenes
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich (1963 version)
Production by Irina Molostova
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
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June 2006
1, Thu
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
2, Fri
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
The Queen of Spades
opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Alexander Galibin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
3, Sat
15:00 |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
3, Sat
20:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 5
Mozart. Piano Concerto No. 25
Soloist: Tzimon Barto (piano)
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach |
4, Sun
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
The Queen of Spades
opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Alexander Galibin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
5, Mon
20:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphonies No. 3 & 13
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
6, Tue
18:00 |
Russian Masterpieces
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
opera in four acts
Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Production by Dmitry Chernyakov
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
7, Wed
evening |
Irma Nioradze Gala Performance
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8, Thu
morning |
Mariinsky Ballet
Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov |
8, Thu
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
Prince Igor
opera in three acts with a prologue (1954 Production)
Music: Alexander Borodin
Revival Stage Director: Irkin Gabitov (2001)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
9, Fri
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
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10, Sat
morning |
Mariinsky Ballet
Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov |
10, Sat
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
Ondine
ballet in two acts and six scenes
Music: Cesare Pugni
Choreography: Pierre Lacotte (2006)
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
10, Sat
21:00 |
Church of the Spilled Blood
Concert of the Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Conductor: Andrei Petrenko |
11, Sun
morning |
Mariinsky Ballet
Final Graduation Performance of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov |
11, Sun
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
Chopiniana. Schéhérazade. Firebird.
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
12, Mon
evening |
Vladimir Galuzin Solo Concert
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
13, Tue
18:00 |
Das Rheingold
the preliminary evening of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
in four scenes
Music: Richard Wagner
Production concept: Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
15, Thu
18:00 |
Die Walküre
the first day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
in three acts
Music: Richard Wagner
Production concept: Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
16, Fri
18:00 |
Siegfried
the second day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
in three act
Music: Richard Wagner
Production concept: Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
16, Fri
evening |
St Petersburg State Musical Comedy Theatre
Ballet Concert
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
17, Sat
18:00 |
Götterdämmerung
the third day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
in three acts with prologue
Music: Richard Wagner
Production concept: Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
17, Sat
evening |
St Petersburg State Musical Comedy Theatre
Ballet Concert
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
18, Sun
evening |
Italian Masterpieces
La forza del destino
opera in four acts
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Elijah Moshinsky
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda |
19, Mon
20:00 |
Italian Masterpieces
Falstaff
opera in three acts and six scenes
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Kirill Serebrennikov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
20, Tue
18:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 7
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
20, Tue
20:30 |
Imperial Ballet
La Sylphide
pantomime ballet in two acts
Music: Herman von Lovenskjøld
Choreography: August Bournonville (1836)
Conductor: Alexander Polyanichko |
21, Wed
18:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Sibelius. Legends
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 9
Conductor: Esa Pekka Salonen |
21, Wed
21:00 |
Mariinsky Ballet
The Magic Nut
ballet in two acts
Music: Sergei Slonimsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Donvena Pandoursky
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
22, Thu
evening |
St Petersburg State Musical Comedy Theatre
Ballet Concert
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
22, Thu
evening |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphonies No. 1 & 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
22, Thu
21:00 |
Mariinsky Ballet
The Nutcracker
ballet in two acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Kirill Simonov
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
23, Fri
18:00 |
Italian Masterpieces
I pagliacci
opera in two acts with a prologue
Music: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Production by Isabelle Partiot-Pieri
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
23, Fri
22:00 |
Mariinsky Ballet
Jewels
ballet in three parts
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine (1967)
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov |
24, Sat
14:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 2
Sibelius. Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov. Piano Concerto No. 3
Soloists: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
24, Sat
evening |
Kirov Ballet
Romeo and Juliet
ballet in three acts (thirteen scenes)
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Leonid Lavrovsky (1940)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
25, Sun
16:00 |
Yefim Bronfman – Solo Recital
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25, Sun
20:00 |
Shostakovich on Stage
The Nose
opera in three acts and ten scenes
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Production by Yury Alexandrov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
26, Mon
evening |
St Petersburg State Musical Comedy Theatre
Shostakovich on Stage
Moscow, Cheryomushki
(concert performance)
operetta in three acts, five scenes
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
27, Tue
20:00 |
Renée Fleming Solo Concert
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
! PREMIERE !
28, Wed
18:30 |
Shostakovich on Stage
The Golden Age
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
28, Wed
22:30 |
Mozart. Requiem
Philharmonia of the Nations,
Chorus and Soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre
Conductor: Justus Frantz |
29, Thu
18:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Schumann. Symphony No. 1
Shostakovich. Piano Concerto No 2
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 10
Soloist: Anika Vavic (piano)
Conductor: Paavo Järvi |
29, Thu
evening |
Ivangorod
Mazepa
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
! PREMIERE !
29, Thu
21:00 |
Shostakovich on Stage
The Golden Age
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
30, Fri
20:00 |
Italian Masterpieces
Don Carlo
opera in four acts
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Yury Alexandrov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
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July 2006
1, Sat
20:00 |
Italian Masterpieces
Nabucco
opera in four acts
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Dmitry Bertman
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
2, Sun
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Le Corsaire
ballet in three acts with a prologue and epilogue
Music: Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pavel Oldenburgsky
Choreography: Pyotr Gusev (1987)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
3, Mon
18:00 |
Shostakovich on Stage
Overcoat after Gogol. The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Leningrad Symphony
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Choreography: Noah D Gelber (2006), Konstantin Boyarsky (1962), Igor Belsky (1961)
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov |
3, Mon
22:00 |
Shostakovich Centenary
Shostakovich Gala
Moscow Soloists
Conductor: Yuri Bashmet |
4, Tue
evening |
Imperial Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty
ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and apotheosis
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1890)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
5, Wed
18:00 |
Così fan tutte
(concert performance)
drama giocoso in two acts
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Manfred Honeck |
5, Wed
22:00 |
Kirov Ballet
Cinderella
ballet in three acts
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky (2002)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
6, Thu
18:00 |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 6
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky. Capriccio Italien
Soloist: Denis Matsuev (piano)
Conductor: Mariss Jansons |
6, Thu
21:00 |
Mariinsky Ballet
Forsythe at the Mariinsky
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7, Fri
evening |
Kirov Ballet
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
choreographic poem in four scenes with prologue and epilogue
Music: Boris Asafiev
Choreography: Rostislav Zakharov (1934)
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov |
7, Fri
evening |
Vyborg
Mazepa
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
8, Sat
17:00 |
Russian Masterpieces
Eugene Onegin
lyric opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
9, Sun
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
Jewels
ballet in three parts
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine (1967)
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
10, Mon
evening |
Shostakovich Symphonies
Shostakovich. Symphonies No. 12 & 8
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
11, Tue
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
Boris Godunov
Music: Modest Musorgsky
Production: Andrei Tarkovsky
Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
12, Wed
evening |
Russian Masterpieces
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and of the Beautiful Swan-Princess
opera in a prologue and four acts
Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Production by Alexander Petrov
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
13, Thu
evening |
Kirov Ballet
The Legend of Love
ballet in three acts
Music: Arif Melikov
Choreography: Yury Grigorovich (1961)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
14, Fri
evening |
Mariinsky Ballet
Prodigal Son. Reverence. Etudes
ballets in one act
Music: Sergei Prokofiev, Gavin Bryars, Karl Czerny
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich |
15, Sat
evening |
Italian Masterpieces
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L´albergo del giglio d´oro
dramma giocoso in one act
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Production by Alain Maratrat
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
16, Sun
morning |
Russian Masterpieces
Ruslan and Lyudmila
opera in five acts
Music: Mikhail Glinka
Production by Lotfi Mansouri
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
16, Sun
20:00 |
Mariinsky Ballet
Chopiniana. Schèhèrazade. Firebird
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
17, Mon
evening |
Imperial Ballet
Swan Lake
fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Conductor: Boris Gruzin |
18, Tue
evening |
The Turn of the Screw
opera in two acts with a prologue
Music: Benjamin Britten
Production by David McVicar
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov |
19, Wed
evening |
The closing of the XIV International Festival Stars of the White Nights
Russian Masterpieces
Eugene Onegin
lyric opera in three acts, seven scenes
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
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Matinee performances begin at 11.30 and evening performances at 7.00 unless otherwise stated
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"The Stars of the White Nights" Festival 2006
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