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"The Stars of the White Nights 2024" International Ballet and Opera Festival

"The Stars of the White Nights 2024" International Ballet and Opera Festival is the main event of the year at the World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre, with the participation of the world ballet and opera stars.
The schedule will be announced anytime in February-March 2024. If you are interested in this schedule, just choose the dates below and leave a request. As soon as the playbill is announced, we will let you know immediately.
After the schedule is announced, within 10 days you will be able to buy the tickets with maximum 15% discount. In each section, you will get the best seats for the same price - centrally located and front rows. Usually, these seats are sold out soon and available for early bookers only. We guarantee that you will receive full view seats only. To ensure that you will not miss the 15% discount and best seats, we would recommend you to leave your phone number. In case you will not get the e-mail with the schedule, we will be able to reach you by phone. So, you will be guaranteed to get the schedule. Your phone number will be used to inform you about the schedule only and will not be used for any other purposes. You can always cancel tickets for any reason and get full (100%) refund or change your tickets for any other tickets. So you can get best seats and maximal discount and do not worry if you change your plans

27 - 31
May

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 27 May 2024  to 31 May 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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01 - 05
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 01 June 2024  to 05 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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06 - 10
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 06 June 2024  to 10 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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11 - 15
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 11 June 2024  to 15 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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16 - 20
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 16 June 2024  to 20 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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21 - 25
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 21 June 2024  to 25 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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26 - 30
June

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 26 June 2024  to 30 June 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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01 - 05
July

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 01 July 2024  to 05 July 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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06 - 10
July

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 06 July 2024  to 10 July 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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11 - 11
July

The schedule (playbill) for The Stars of the White Nights festival from 11 July 2024  to 11 July 2024 will be announced anytime in February-March 2024.
Just put your name and e-mail below, and we will let you know immediately as soon as the schedule is announced.
Also, you will get a 15% early booking discount and best seats 
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During the "Stars of the White Nights" festival there will be daily Ballet or Opera evening performances at the Main Stage and almost daily Ballet or Opera evening performances at the Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Usually, evening performances start at 7 pm. In addition, sometimes there are morning or daytime performances as well, that can start either at 12 am, or at 2 pm or at 4 pm.
 

About "The Stars of the White Nights" Festivals

The Stars of the White Nights is one of the brightest stars of the music and theatre universe and has emerged to be one of the most popular and grandiose music forums in its context and scale.The Stars of the White Nights Festival was created in 1993 by Maestro Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Theatre Artistic and General Director. Maestro Gergiev says that he conceived the first Festival as a "musical gift" to the city from the Mariinsky and its star-artists. From the very beginning, the Festival has been focused on the masterpieces of the world's music discovering for its audience some rarely performed or undeservedly forgotten pieces.The Stars of the White Nights Festival has gained in strength, popularity and international acclaim. The duration of the Festival it has expanded from ten days to three months during the last sixteen year. Renowned conductors and star-artists take as great honour the invitation to perform at the Stars of the White Nights. Each year the Festival programme includes the Theater's finest opera and ballet productions, great symphonic works, masterpieces of chamber music and new premieres.
During the last years, the Festival programme has included the works created by the great classical composers – Beethoven symphonies, Prokofiev's and Tchaikovsky's operas, ballets and symphony music. Major events at the Stars have included the production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, in addition to the Shostakovich and Mahler Symphonies series.
This festival is a must for ballet, opera and classical music amateurs. The annual Stars of the White Nights Festival takes an inspiration for its name from the short summer season when the sun never sets, and the beauty of St-Petersburg White Nights contributes to the festival's special atmosphere and its world-class programme of concerts, as audience comes out of the historic theatre at midnight into daylight to stroll along the streets of the theatrical setting of St Petersburg.
 
 
Detailed information about 2024 Festival will be added later. Please read about the previous "The Stars of the White Nights" Festival 2023. 
 
The Stars of the White Nights 2023

27 May - 11 July 2024

Artistic Director: Maestro Valery Gergiev 

 

From May 27 to July 11, the Mariinsky Theater hosted the XXXI International Music Festival "Stars of the White Nights" - the main event of the St. Petersburg summer and the culmination of the musical season of the Northern capital. Spectators are waiting for performances by stars of the world stage, a scattering of repertoire rarities and solo concerts of outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists. Events of a rich program tooke place on all stages of the Mariinsky Theater at once. Artistic director - Valery Gergiev.

The large festival program started with a concert by the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev on the afternoon of May 27 in the Concert Hall. In the evening, the maestro again standed at the podium - the lyric opera "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky, one of the recent premieres at the Mariinsky, opened on the historical stage Stars of the White Nights. And the New Stage was graced by another recent premiere - the grandiose ballet "The Pharaoh's Daughter" choreographed by Marius Petipa, which has become a real highlight of the season. Also performance was held on May 28 and 29.

June gave the audience a lot of meetings with their favorite artists - as part of the Stars of the White Nights, world-famous opera soloists appeared on the historical and new stages. On May 31Hibla Gerzmava performed on the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The famous soprano  appeared as Desdemona in Verdi's "Otello". On June 3 "Italian in Algeria" Rossini was held with the participation of Ildar Abdrazakov. The famous bass performed the part of the charming bey Mustafa - one of the crowning in his repertoire. It was possible to see the artist again on stage on June 8 - his concert with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev held at the Mariinsky-2.

On June 16, one cannot miss the concert performance of Bellini's opera "I Puritani" - a rare composition for the Mariinsky was performed by a brilliant cast of artists. Albina Shagimuratova and Maharram Huseynov played the main roles. Another gift for the audience was "Salome" by Richard Strauss – on June 21 Elena Stikhina performed in the title role. At the conductor's stand - Valery Gergiev. On June 27, Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" also was performed on the new stage in an expressive production by Alexei Stepanyuk. The part of Fevronia was performed by Irina Churilova.

A good tradition of the festival has become a series of shows of repertory rarities of the Mariinsky. On May 31, the audience saw the ballet "Shurale" by Farid Yarullin choreographed by Leonid Yakobson. This colorful story based on oriental folk tales is often called the Tatar "Swan Lake". On June 16 and 17, Glazunov's "Raymonda", one of the late big ballets by the already mature master Marius Petipa, was shown on the Historical Stage. The audience is waiting for an exciting plot, complex parties, large-scale dance scenes in the scenery and costumes of Simon Virsaladze. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the world premiere of the ballet, which took place on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The first show of "Raymonda" was also dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the legendary ballerina Irina Kolpakova. Of the operatic rarities, it is worth paying attention to Prokofiev's "Semyon Kotko" (June 14), Igor Stravinsky's "Le Rossignol" (June 17), Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlo" (June 30).

Among the upcoming events of the Stars of the White Nights instrumental playbill are a concert by cellist Oleg Sendetsky and organist Svetlana Berezhnaya (May 27), an evening of serenades performed by the Stradivari Ensemble of the Mariinsky Theater (May 28), a performance by the bright flutist Sofia Wieland with the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra (May 30). On May 30, on the birthday of the outstanding pianist Alexander Toradze, a concert dedicated to the memory of the musician was given on the new stage. Denis Matsuev took part in the concert, and Valery Gergiev conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Piano music fans also enjoyed the gala concert of outstanding young pianists, participants in various competitions and festivals, whose names were revealed to the world by Denis Matsuev (June 1). Another event was the solo concert of the bright young pianist Ivan Bessonov (June 9), winner of the gold medal of the International Competition of Pianists, Composers and Conductors. S.V. Rachmaninov.

The Perm Opera and Ballet Theater also toured on the stages of the Mariinsky as part of the Stars of the White Nights. On May 30, the Parma Voices choir performed in the Prokofiev Chamber Hall, on June 1, Bellini's "Norma", one of the recent premieres of the Perm Opera, was performed on the historical stage, and on June 2, Verdi's "La Traviata" was performed in concert in the Concert Hall. The tour concluded with a performance of the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" (June 3) choreographed by the British classic Kenneth Macmillan - a unique production for Russia. Conductor of all three performances was Mihran Aghajanyan.

On June 27, at 19:00, the historical stage of the Mariinsky Theater hosted the premiere of one-act performances to the music of Béla Bartók – the ballet The Wonderful Mandarin and the composer’s only opera The Castle of Duke Bluebeard was shown. The main parts was performed by Diana VishnevaKimin Kim, Mikhail Petrenko and Anzhelika Minasova. Stage director - Yuri Posokhov. This performances practically do not appear on Russian stages.

Ballet fans also treated to a series of rare repertoire shows - on July 8 and twice on July 9, Prokofiev's Stone Flower was performed on the historical stage. Victoria TereshkinaAndrey ErmakovEkaterina Osmolkina and Alexander Sergeev played the main roles on July 8.

The opera poster of the last days of June and the beginning of July is rich in star names. On June 30, Verdi's opera Don Carlos was performed at the Mariinsky-2. Tatiana Serjan, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Skorokhodov, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Maharram Huseynov and Mikhail Kolelishvili  performed the famous composition for six soloists of the highest level of skill, each of whom the composer presented a complex and winning part in their own way. The same Verdi's masterpiece was solemnly end the XXXI Stars of the White Nights Music Festival on July 11. Brilliant artists  tooke the stage - Hibla Gerzmava, Sergey Skorokhodov, Alexei Markov, Evgeny Nikitin and Mikhail Petrenko. At the conductor's stand - Valery Gergiev.

In July, fans of the music of the Italian genius are waiting for two more performances with the participation of opera stars. On July 3, the opera Macbeth based on the story of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name was performed at the historical stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The part of Lady Macbeth was performed by Yekaterina Semenchuk, the part of Macduff was performed by Alexander Mikhailov. And on July 8, the opera Rigoletto was performed at the Mariinsky-2, which struck Verdi's contemporaries with its humanity. Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Antonina Vesenina and Kirill Belov tooke the stage.

There was also two stellar events on the poster of the Concert Hall in early July. On July 6, Dargomyzhsky's opera "Rusalka" was performed in concert. The part of Melnik was performed by Vladimir Vaneev, conducted - Valery Gergiev. And the next day, July 7, the leading soloists of the opera troupe dedicated a concert to the memory of Elena Obraztsova. Tatyana Serzhan, Ekaterina Sergeeva, Zinaida Tsarenko, Alexander Mikhailov, Sergey Semishkur, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar and Alexei Markov tooke the stage. They performed famous excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, Mascagni's Rural Honor and Bizet's Carmen.

And on July 10 Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor was performed on the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. A surprise for the public was the appearance of Albina Shagimuratova in the title role. In March, the singer performed one of her crowning roles for the last time, but due to numerous requests from the artist's fans, it was decided to repeat her performance as Lucia as a special event as part of the Stars of the White Nights festival. Together with the singer, Evgeny Akimov, Roman Burdenko and Maharram Huseynov tooke the stage. At the conductor's stand - Valery Gergiev.


Mariinsky Theatre:
1 Theatre Square
St. Petersburg
Mariinsky-2 (New Theatre):
34 Dekabristov Street
St. Petersburg
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20 Pisareva street
St. Petersburg

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