'War and Peace,' concert featuring Anna Netrebko part of Mariinsky Opera's DC visit

'War and Peace,' concert featuring Anna Netrebko part of Mariinsky Opera's DC visit

The visits to the Kennedy Center by the Mariinsky Opera and Orchestra from St. Petersburg have been major highlights of the past decade. The company's 2010 residency, again conducted by the magnetic, globe-trotting Valery Gergiev, will include a fully-staged, note-complete production of Prokofiev's "War and Peace" (March 6, 7), which would be reason enough to build interest.

This year, there won't be any other stagings (the economy affects everyone, you know), but Gergiev will lead complete performances of "Eugen Onegin" (Feb. 27) and "Boris Godunov" (Feb, 28) in concert form. There will also be concerts devoted to scenes from

other Russian operas: Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh," Mussorgsky’s "Khovantchina" and Borodin’s "Prince Igor" (March 3); and an all-Tchaikovsky bill that includes excerpts from "Iolanta," "Mazeppa," and "The Queen of Spades" (March 4).

The starry news of the Tchaikovsky night is the participation of soprano Anna Netrebko in the "Iolanta" selections. She may be the best known of the Russian artists appearing on this Mariinsky visit, but you can count on many distinctive voices and, of course, a dynamic orchestra -- Gergiev has honed this company into quite a showcase.

Iolanta reloaded !!!

Anna will sing the Iolanta once again on 28th September at the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petersburg. It's the same production like in Baden-Baden. The cast is not announced yet, and tickets are still available.

We are looking forward to it ! =)

Anna at the Mariinsky Theatre

Anna will give a concert at the Mariinksy Theatre on 02nd May. She will be joined by the pianist Denis Matsuev and the Mariinsky Theatre's orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.

What a great chance to see Anna once again at her "home" opera ! =)

Latest news about Anna

This short article is out of the russian TV channels site "100 TV", published on Monday.

The dress rehearsal of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Mariinksy theatre came to the end

For the first time after the birth of her child on a scene, there was opera star Anna Netrebko. Broadway director John Doyle has staged the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor". To performance two years. Valery Gergiev has seen it for the first time in Edinburgh in summer. Then he decided to transfer the Scottish production on the St. Petersburg’s scene. In the main part - opera star Anna Netrebko. Lately the quantity of performances of the opera star has been strongly limited. But as she said, on a scene Mariinsky it simply should leave.
Anna Netrebko, the Russian opera singer, soprano: “It is my native theatre. To return is for me always the big pleasure, happiness and the big responsibility. So it has turned out, that Valery Gergiev so has quickly organized this statement, for считанные months, therefore I and executes it. After that I went at the Met to perform the same part.”
According to the Italian “Romeo and Juliette” history - so named Lucia and her beloved Edgardo - many composers addressed. But only Donizetti has created an opera which is put successfully on the best platforms of the world already almost by 170 years. The composer was involved with one of Walter Scott's most gloomy novels “The Bride of Lammermoor” - about bloody enmity of two Scottish sorts.


Thanks a lot to Anatoly for the information and the english translation !