Valery Gergiev — on the Eve of Days of Stravinsky

Valery Gergiev is to host a series of Days of Stravinsky in St Petersburg and Moscow. The concerts and performances are to take place on and around a special date — 6 April marks fifty years since the composer’s death. Throughout the day on Sunday 4 April, each and every Mariinsky Theatre venue will only be performing music by Igor Stravinsky. Maestro Gergiev will be conducting a performance of the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex featuring Ekaterina Semenchuk and Alexander Mikhailov as well as Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (with soloist Denis Matsuev). The role of the Narrator in Oedipus Rex is to be performed by Sergey Migitsko, People’s Artist of Russia. The playbill for these “Days“ includes the entire anthology of Stravinsky’s music currently in the Mariinsky Theatre’s repertoire. Audiences will have the opportunity to see ballets from the Diaghilev period: Pétrouchka and The Firebird by Michel Fokine, Le Sacre du printemps by Vaslav Nijinsky, Les Noces by Bron