Artistic Director – Maestro Valery
Gergiev
Mariinsky Theatre, New Theatre and Concert Hall
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 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 for 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.
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