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Symphony Orchestra Mariinsky Theater led by Valery Gergiev will perform in Moscow. This team is one of the oldest in Russia. It arose at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries and was called the orchestra of the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera. IN different years its composition performed with greatest composers– Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler. Premieres of many famous musical works were presented to the Russian public by the Mariinsky Orchestra. These are the operas “A Life for the Tsar” and “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by Glinka, “Khovanshchina” and “Boris Godunov” by Mussorgsky, “The Snow Maiden” and “The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh” by Rimsky-Korsakov, “ Queen of Spades», « Swan Lake", "Iolanta", "The Nutcracker", "The Sleeping Beauty" by Tchaikovsky, works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian.

In 1988, the outstanding conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra became Russian musician Valery Gergiev. His talent has received wide recognition and popularity throughout the world. Tickets for the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra fans dream of buying classical music V different countries. Any program presented by the maestro of the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra in Moscow or any other city amazes with its vivid emotionality and subtlety of reading the musical scores. Anyone who buys tickets for the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra concert will hear works by great composers performed by famous musicians.

Alery Gergiev is perhaps the most popular conductor of our time. His name is known even to people far from academic music. He performs at the largest venues around the world, invariably attracting millions of listeners, but his main goal is the development of the Mariinsky Theater and Russian classical music.

From Ordzhonikidze to Mariinsky

Valery Gergiev's musical career began with the fact that as a child he was not accepted into music school, placing deuces on musical rhythm, memory and hearing. He wanted to play football professionally (he remains a passionate fan), but, as Gergiev recalls, he was greatly impressed by the concerts of Svyatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich: “Hearing and seeing these musicians, I realized that I would play music all my life.”. Valery Gergiev graduated School of Music in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), where the family returned after the father’s military demobilization from Moscow in 1959. In addition to football, the boy was interested in drawing and mathematics, and participated and won school Olympiads.

Maestro Gergiev is a representative of the St. Petersburg performing school, a student of the legendary conductor Ilya Musin. As a student at the Leningrad Conservatory, he won the prestigious Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in 1977, which launched his career. At the age of 35 he was already elected artistic director opera troupe of one of the main theaters in the country - the Mariinsky Theater, and in 1996 - artistic director of the theater. Not appointed from above by the authorities, as was previously practiced, but elected by the collective. Over the following years of work with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, he achieved international fame, performing at the best sites world and prestigious festivals.

Mariinsky Holding

In the late 1990s, Valery Gergiev was able to revive past glory Mariinsky Theater, which under his leadership became the main representative of Russian art abroad. The musician turned to Russian opera classics, and presented them in modern productions, inviting world directors to collaborate. Almost every year he spends grand festivals: Modest Mussorgsky (1989), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1990), Sergei Prokofiev (1991), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1994), Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, festival held in London), which still have no analogues. If Peter I opened a window to Europe, then Valery Gergiev opened Western music to Russia, and to Europe - musical culture Russia. For example, before his performances, Rimsky-Korsakov’s works had not been heard abroad for about a hundred years.

Under the leadership of Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Theater has turned into a large-scale “holding” of four buildings in two cities of Russia. This is a restored Historical scene, Concert hall and Mariinsky-2 on Theater Square in St. Petersburg and the Primorskaya Stage in Vladivostok. By the way, on Gergiev’s initiative in 1992, the theater was returned historical name- Mariinsky (in Soviet years it was called the Kirov Theater). Today, the theater has an Academy of Young Singers (opened in 1998), a youth orchestra and its own Mariinsky label.

From classic to modern

Gergiev is not just outstanding conductor, but also a talented manager. He began to attract young vocalists to the theater. Anna Netrebko, Maria Guleghina, Olga Borodina and many other performers became world stars thanks to Gergiev. He returns to the tradition of performing operas in the original language and introduces the practice of co-productions, working in partnership with famous opera houses and Western sponsors. It was Valery Gergiev who performed Richard Wagner’s famous opera cycle “The Ring of the Nibelung,” which had not been performed in Russia for more than half a century.

In addition to Russian and foreign classics, the maestro’s repertoire gradually includes music by contemporary domestic composers - Rodion Shchedrin, Sofia Gubaidullina, Boris Tishchenko, Nikolai Karetnikov, Sergei Slonimsky and Alexander Smelkov.

Another pride of Valery Gergiev is the Easter Festival, which over the past years has given more than a thousand concerts in 90 cities in Russia and neighboring countries. The performance in Belomorsk, where there is not even a concert hall, was special for him. “We tour Russia more than anywhere else” - this is the conductor’s slogan for the last 15 years.

“I always know where I’m going and why”

The conductor's tour schedule is scheduled hourly. He holds the record for the number of concerts. As indicated on its official website, the Mariinsky Orchestra under the direction of Gergiev gives up to 760 concerts per season, which is an average of two or three concerts a day, which sometimes take place not only in different cities, but also in different countries.

Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev

Today Valery Gergiev directs a dozen festivals, several theaters and orchestras. In 2015, another position appeared - chief conductor Munich Orchestra. In 2010, he became the only representative of Russia included in the list of 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. And in 2014, Gergiev took part in the opening and closing ceremonies Olympic Games in Sochi, directing a combined children's choir of thousands created on his initiative.

The annual Easter tour of Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra across Russian cities will begin immediately after the opening XVII Moscow Easter festival in Great hall conservatory. At the end of the concert, the Easter special train will depart from the Kursky station on the first route - to Voronezh and Vladikavkaz. Next will be Volgograd, Saratov, Kazan. Gergiev plans to give concerts in almost thirty regions - from Arkhangelsk to Siberia, and in addition, Easter visits to Beijing and Lucerne.

In terms of the scope of the poster and the geography of the Moscow Easter Gergiev Festival, there is no analogue to this project in the world. Suffice it to say that the musicians will perform for 32 days this year in Russian regions, playing two concerts in almost every city, one of which is a charity one. The programs in the cities will be different: Gergiev decided to devote most of them to the anniversaries of composers - Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Borodin, Aram Khachaturian, Tikhon Khrennikov, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Gounod, George Gershwin and others.

The “Offering to Marius Petipa” will also take place at the festival - on the 200th anniversary legendary choreographer, whose name is associated with an entire era of the Mariinsky Theater and the phenomenon of “Russian ballet”.

Every year Gergiev presents the world's most famous musicians, young names, and laureates of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Russian cities. But for the musicians themselves, this specific Easter marathon, concerts “from the wheels” is an exclusive experience. At the same time, some, for example, pianist Denis Matsuev, perform at the festival every year. This year he will perform on May 2, Gergiev's 65th birthday, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. But he doesn’t yet know what other cities he will come to for the festival: “Valery Abisalovich and I improvise every minute, so I don’t say which concerts of the Easter festival I will participate in. We are friends, and we are ready for different actions, but not only a friend for friend, but first and foremost for our public."

Denis Matsuev: “Gergiev and I improvise every minute.” Photo: Vitaly Bezrukikh

Meanwhile, it is known that pianists Bekhzod Abduraimov, South Korean Song Jin Cho, soprano Yulia Lezhneva, violinists Christophe Barati, Pavel Milyukov, cellists Alexander Ramm and Alexander Buzlov and many others will perform at the festival. This year, the very first concert of the Easter Festival, which will take place on April 8 at 12 noon in the Tchaikovsky Hall, can be seen live broadcast in the Moscow Philharmonic Virtual Concert Hall project. The festival will end on May 9 with a traditional open air at Poklonnaya Hill and an evening concert in the Great Hall of the Conservatory.

The Easter festival will be held in Moscow and Russian cities from April 8 to May 9

The festival will open on May 8 with a daytime concert by the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and an evening concert in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. The regional tour will begin on April 9 Mariinsky Orchestra.

The Moscow Easter Festival will present four program posters and charity concerts:

Symphony program: Concerts of the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev will be held in Moscow, Voronezh, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Saratov, Kazan, Tyumen, Novosibirsk and other cities (see infographics).

Choral program: The opening will take place on April 9 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. During the festival, choirs from Russia, Abkhazia, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Sweden, Greece, Finland, and Bulgaria will take part in the choral program. Concerts will be held in Moscow, Khimki, Reutov, Ramenskoye, Zaraysk, Yegoryevsk, Istra, Balashikha, Serpukhov, Tula and other places.

The Chamber program will feature Russian romances and arias from operas performed by soloists of the Academy of Young Singers of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Larisa Gergieva, open rehearsals, and master classes. Concerts will be held in Moscow, Sevastopol, Yalta, Plyos, Suzdal, Vladimir, Tikhvin, Gatchina, Smolensk, Kingisepp, Severomorsk, Perm, Novokuznetsk, Ulan-Ude, Ufa.

50 churches and 40 bell ringers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Finland, France and Kazakhstan will participate in the Ringing Program.

Direct speech

Valery Gergiev, director of the Mariinsky Theater:

This year the programs of the Moscow Easter Festival are still in to a greater extent, than before, will be addressed to the regional public. Over the fifteen years of the festival’s existence, the number of Russian regions that we traveled on the Easter train, I think, is close to 60. This year we will play two concerts almost everywhere, in Moscow we have about 10 programs planned, and between Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk we We’ll fly to Beijing for two days, where we’ll perform a concert version of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina.”

In terms of the scope of the poster and the geography of the Easter Festival, there is no analogue to this project

It seems to me that this opera has not been performed in China since the time of Mao Zedong. Concerning Russian program, then we will definitely perform fragments from the operas "Tannhäuser" by Richard Wagner and "Falstaff" by Verdi - our future productions on the Mariinsky stage. In general, the good thing about the Easter Festival is that thanks to our visits, the public in the regions has a better idea of ​​what the sound of a real symphony orchestra is, what the sound of instrumental ensembles is like - a woodwind ensemble, a brass ensemble, a Stradivarius ensemble.

We play a varied repertoire for our audience: classics, modern music- Rodion Shchedrin, Henri Dutilleux, rarely performed works - for example, "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" by Claude Debussy. We bring repertoire to Russian cities that is almost impossible to hear in the regions. Not every orchestra can afford a concert performance of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens. Even in Paris this opera is rarely performed. And we came to Yekaterinburg and performed “The Trojans”. We performed operas by Wagner, Prokofiev, and rarely heard opera scores by Tchaikovsky in Russian cities. In fact, at this festival the activities of the Mariinsky Theater continue in Tomsk, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, and Murmansk. Agree, the visits of such a huge team cannot but influence the cultural situation on the ground. I remember well all the human meetings that I had in the regions five, ten, fifteen years ago and which connected me with many people friendly relations. They are waiting for our return, and now the Ural Orchestra, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Kazan orchestras are performing at the Mariinsky Theater. This movement towards is the meaning of the Easter festival.

Infographics "RG": Anton Perepletchikov/Susanna Alperina

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Art Valeria Gergieva in demand all over the world. The maestro is the brightest representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school, a student of the legendary professor Ilya Musin. While still a student at the Leningrad Conservatory, Gergiev won the Herbert von Karajan competition in Berlin and the All-Union Conducting Competition in Moscow, after which he was invited to the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theater as assistant chief conductor. His theater debut was Prokofiev's War and Peace (1978). In 1988, Gergiev was elected musical director Mariinsky Theater, in 1996 he became its artistic director-director, taking over the leadership of the orchestra, opera and ballet troupes.

With the arrival of Valery Gergiev at the theater, large thematic festivals dedicated to the anniversaries of composers became a tradition. In 1989, a festival was held dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Mussorgsky, in 1990 - the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky, in 1991 - the 100th anniversary of Prokofiev, in 1994 - the 150th anniversary of Rimsky-Korsakov. The festival programs included not only well-known scores, but also works that were rarely performed or had never been performed before. The tradition of anniversary festivals continues in the 21st century with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich in 2006, the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky in 2015, and the 125th anniversary of Prokofiev in 2016.

Thanks to the efforts of maestro Gergiev, Wagner's operas returned to the stage of the Mariinsky Theater. In 1997, “Parsifal” was performed, which had not been seen on the Russian stage for more than 80 years, “Lohengrin” was revived in 1999, and by 2003 the grandiose opera tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” was staged in its entirety. This was the first complete performance of “The Ring” on the Russian stage after a break of almost a century, and the first in Russia in the original language. The tetralogy was a success on tour at the Mariinsky Theater in Moscow, as well as abroad - in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Great Britain and Spain. The theater’s repertoire includes productions of “Tristan and Isolde” (2005) and “ Flying Dutchman"(1998, 2008). The Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gergiev has reached a new level, mastering not only new opera and ballet scores, but also an extensive symphonic repertoire - all the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, works by Berlioz, Bruckner, Rimsky Korsakov, R. Strauss, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Ustvolskaya, Shchedrin, Kancheli and many other composers.

Under the leadership of Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Theater has turned into a large-scale theater and concert complex that has no analogues in the world. The Concert Hall was opened in 2006, and the second stage of the theater (Mariinsky-2) was opened in 2013. On January 1, 2016, the Mariinsky Theater opened a branch in Vladivostok - the Primorskaya Stage, and from April 2017 - in Vladikavkaz: the National state theater Opera and Ballet of the Republic North Ossetia– Alania and North Ossetian state Academic Philharmonic. Among Gergiev’s projects implemented at the Mariinsky Theater are the organization of media broadcasting, online broadcasts of concerts, the creation recording studio. In 2009, the Mariinsky label began its work, which has now released more than 30 discs that have received critical and public recognition around the world: symphonies and piano concertos by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, operas by Wagner, Massenet, Donizetti and whole line other works. Recordings of Prokofiev's ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella and the opera The Gambler have been released on DVD.

Valery Gergiev's international activities are no less intense and active. Having debuted in 1992 in the Bavarian State Opera("Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky), in 1993 - at Covent Garden ("Eugene Onegin" by Tchaikovsky), in 1994 - at the Metropolitan Opera ("Otello" by Verdi with Placido Domingo in the title role), the maestro successfully continues to collaborate with leading

opera houses and festivals around the world. He works with the World Peace Orchestra (which he has directed since 1997 after the death of the orchestra's founder Georg Solti), with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco, the Royal the Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), as well as many other groups. From 1995 to 2008, Valery Gergiev served as chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra(today – honorary conductor of the ensemble), from 2007 to 2015 – London Symphony Orchestra. Since the fall of 2015, the maestro has led the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

Valery Gergiev is the founder and director of prestigious international festivals, including “Stars of the White Nights” (since 1993), Moscow Easter Festival (since 2002), “Gergiev Festival” in Rotterdam, festival in Mikkeli, “360 degrees” in Munich. Since 2011 he has headed the organizing committee international competition named after Tchaikovsky. Gergiev pays great attention to working with young musicians. On his initiative, the All-Russian Choral Society was revived, on the basis of which the Children's choir Russia, who performed at Mariinsky-2, Bolshoi Theater and at the closing of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Since 2013, the maestro has led the US National Youth Orchestra and regularly performs with the youth orchestras of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Verbier Festival and the Pacific music festival in Sapporo. Since 2015, the Mariinsky Theater has been hosting annual festival"Mariinsky NEXT", in which children's and youth orchestras of St. Petersburg participate.

Musical and social activity Valeria Gergieva was awarded three State Prizes Russian Federation(1993, 1998, 2015), titles People's Artist Russian Federation (1996) and Hero of Labor (2013), Order of Alexander Nevsky (2016), high state awards Armenia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, France, Japan.