The Mariinsky II Opening Gala Live HD transmission from st Petersburg tHursDay may 2, 2013 Worldwide live transmission from The Mariinsky II (New stage of the Mariinsky Theatre) Thursday May 2, 2013 | 8.00pm St Petersburg time tv director Don Kent | running time 1 x 100’ | format HD Valery Gergiev Artistic Director > The OpeningMariinsky Gala II Opening Gala > Starring tHe mariinsky tHeatre front view tHe mariinsky ii auDitorium The Mariinsky Theatre, one of Il viaggio a Reims, and the Cappella opera ballet the largest and most acclaimed Boys’ Chorus of St Petersburg and Anna Netrebko Soprano Diana Vishneva Principal dancer performing arts institutions in the a Children’s Chorus comprised of Olga Borodina Mezzo-soprano Yekaterina Kondaurova Principal dancer world, under the leadership of Artistic students from [St. Petersburg] local Sergei Semishkur Tenor Ulyana Lopatkina Principal dancer and General Director Valery Gergiev schools will sing Beethoven’s Ode to Placido Domingo Baritone Vladimir Shklyarov Principal dancer will be inaugurated on May 2nd with Joy and Rachmaninoff’s The Angel. Alexei Markov Baritone the Opening Night Black Tie Gala This evening of multi generational Yevgeny Nikitin Bass-baritone and soloists and corps de ballet Concert, featuring some of the performances at Mariinsky II will Ildar Abdrazakov Bass of the Mariinsky Theatre Mariinsky’s most notable vocalists pay homage to the grand tradition René Pape Bass Vaganova Ballet Academy and instrumentalists and the of the Theatre and will celebrate Mikhail Petrenko Bass dynamic range of all of the Mariinsky the beginning of a new era. Theatre’s prestigious companies: Academy of Young Singers soloists the opera, orchestra, ballet, chorus, “The opening of Mariinsky II is the Children chorus and chorus Denis Matsuev Piano and youth ensembles (see cast). moment to reaffirm the long and of the Mariinsky Theatre Leonidas Kavakos Violin great heritage of this institution Yuri Bashmet Viola The stage production presented by while celebrating a future in which Vasily Barkhatov (stage direction), we are able to create new works Danir Ismagilov (lighting design), and innovative productions as never artistic staff Zinovy Margolin (production before,” stated Valery Gergiev, who is Valery Gergiev Artistic Director design), and Anna Matison (video currently marking his 25th anniversary and Conductor production) will feature imagery with the institution. “The programs Vasily Barkhatov Stage director that connects over two hundreds for our inaugural festival are chosen Zinovy Margolin Production designer years of the Mariinsky’s legendary to demonstrate the extraordinary past to its extraordinary expansion range of our companies and our in modern times. Five hundreds expanded complex, while reflecting students from the Vaganova Ballet both the history of the Mariinsky Academy will perform excerpts from and the Theatre’s engagement Sleeping Beauty, the Mariinsky with today’s audiences and with Academy of Young Singers will be all phases of contemporary opera, featured in a scene from Rossini's ballet and orchestral music.” > The Mariinsky II tHe mariinsky ii main entrance tHe mariinsky ii auDitorium the mariinsky complex mariinsky ii architects and design The new centerpiece of the This expanded Mariinsky Cultural Mariinsky II, one of the largest lyric production facilities for 2.500 staff, Mariinsky cultural complex, Complex will serve all of the arts facilities in the world funded and approximately 567.720 square Mariinsky II is designed to Mariinsky companies, the Mariinsky by the Russian Government, is feet of backstage space. Technical complement St Petersburg’s beloved Opera, Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky designed by the Toronto based firm highlights include a stage wagon 19th century architecture and is Orchestra, and the Mariinsky Theatre of Diamond Schmitt Architects system and over stage and under situated on Dekabristov Street on Chorus, and will enable each of in conjunction with the Russian stage machinery that will allow the legendary Theatre Square. them to offer the public a greatly firm KB ViPS. Mariinsky II’s state multiple productions to be performed increased schedule of presentations. of the art facilities will enable the in repertoire. The main auditorium, Mariinsky II is connected to the Mariinsky to present the most designed in the tradition of 18th and historic stage of the Mariinsky ambitious, technically demanding 19th century opera houses, features a Theatre, which opened in 1860, productions, beyond what is currently horseshoe configuration with three by a pedestrian bridge over the possible on the historic stage. balconies, offering superb sightlines Kryukov Canal, joins the Concert for approximately 2,000 operagoers. Hall, inaugurated in 2006, and The 851.580 square foot Mariinsky II the Artistic Production Complex stands 7 stories tall with The acoustic design by Müller BBM of the State Academic Mariinsky 3 underground levels. Mariinsky II has created optimum conditions Theatre, established in 1874. features a main auditorium, a for opera performance. At about 200 seats rooftop amphitheatre, 18,000 cubic meters (635,400 a third floor lobby amphitheatre, cubic feet), the hall has an ideal multiple rehearsal rooms for chorus, volume comparable to the world’s ballet and orchestra, dining and most renowned opera houses. > Valery Gergiev Artistic & GEnErAL DIrector OF THE MArIInSKy TheatrE awards stars of the white nights festival Valery Gergiev’s many awards Gergiev has established and directs include the title of People’s Artist such international festivals as the of Russia, the Dmitri Shostakovich Stars of the White Nights Festival Award, the Polar Music Prize, (St Petersburg), the Moscow Netherland’s Knight of the Order Easter Festival and the Gergiev of the Dutch Lion, Japan’s Order Festival (the Netherlands). of the Rising Sun and the French Order of the Legion of Honor. Gergiev has led numerous composer cycles including Berlioz, biography Brahms, Dutilleux, Mahler, Proko- Artistic and General Director of fiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, the Mariinsky Theatre, Principal Tchaikovsky in New York, London, Conductor of the London Symphony Paris and other international cities Orchestra, Principal Conductor of and he has introduced audiences vaLery gergiev the World Orchestra for Peace, Chair around the world to several rarely of the Organisational Committee performed Russian operas. record of all fifteen of He also collaborates with the of the International Tchaikovsky shostakovitch’s symphonies Metropolitan Opera, the Wiener Competition, Honorary President of For the first time in the history of At the Concert Hall of the Philharmoniker, the orchestra of La the Edinburgh International Festival Russia, Gergiev staged a produc- Mariinsky Theatre there are not Scala and the new york, Munich and and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at tion of Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring only performances of operas and rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras. the St Petersburg State University. des Nibelungen in the original philharmonic programmes, but On 23 January 2013 the Munich City German, the Western European also recordings of works for the Council has voted unanimously to Valery Gergiev graduated from the premiere of which in German and Mariinsky label, established on appoint Valery Gergiev Principal Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov later Wagner’s Ring was performed the initiative of Valery Gergiev in Conductor of the renowned Conservatoire in symphony to in Moscow, South Korea, Japan, 2009. Recent releases include Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. conducting under Professor Ilya USA, Great Britain and Spain. Shostakovich’s and Tchaikovsky’s He will receive a contract until Musin. While still a student at the Symphonies, Massenet’s Don 2020 succeeding Lorin Maazel, Conservatoire, he won the Herbert Valery Gergiev dedicates much Quixote, Shchedrin’s Enchanted whose contract expires in 2015. von Karajan Conducting Competi- attention to works by contem- Wanderer and Wagner’s Parsifal tion in Berlin and the All-Union porary Russian composers to name only a few. Gergiev In 2013 Gergiev became head Conducting Competition in Moscow such as Shchedrin, Tishchenko, plans to record all fifteen of of the national youth Orchestra and was invited to join the Kirov Gubaidulina, Raskatov and Shostakovich’s symphonies in of the United States of America, Theatre (now the Mariinsky). Smelkov and other composers. addition to Wagner’s tetralogy founded on the initiative of Der Ring des Nibelungen (Die Carnegie Hall in New York – the At the age of thirty-five in 1988, Walküre, released on 11 February debut international tour includes Valery Gergiev was appointed 2013, has already received great concerts in Washington DC, Artistic Director of the Mariinsky public and critical acclaim). Moscow, St. Petersburg and Opera, and since 1996 he has been London with Joshua Bell as violin Artistic and General Director of the Principal Conductor of the London soloist. Working with young Mariinsky Theatre (Mariinsky Ballet, Symphony Orchestra since 2007, musicians is an important part of Opera and Orchestra ensembles). Valery Gergiev performs with the the maestro’s activities, and he has In 2006 the Concert Hall opened LSO at the Barbican, the Proms collaborated with youth orchestras on the site of workshops that had and the Edinburgh Festival, as of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, burnt down. The new Mariinsky well as on extensive tours of the Verbier Festival and the Theatre (Mariinsky II) is scheduled