| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Gergiev and the Mariinsky excel in Wagner's Parsifal at the Birmingham Symphony Hall |
 Why attend a concert performance of an opera? What is the point without the action and the spectacle collectively resulting in, hopefully, the awe-inspiring whole? In answer to this I should like to suggest that concert performances of opera are the perfect opportunity to really ‘get under the skin’ of a work, for two principal reasons. Firstly: scenery, costumes, props, lighting effects, choking dry-ice and even pungent aromas used to aid the action are absent, and thus one may connect with the music and plot completely free of distractions. Secondly: why not just listen to a recording?Read full review... | |
| 11-Oct-2011 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Mariinsky Orchestra celebrates youthful energy |
 On Tuesday night, St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Orchestra and their ubiquitous music director Valery Gergiev closed a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. Part of the hall’s fall “Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg” festival, the program included works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich as well as Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
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| 11-Jul-2011 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | Mariinsky Ballet: A look at the future? |
 For all their classical roots and tradition, the Mariinsky Ballet opened their week at the Metropolitan Opera House with an innovative performance of Anna Karenina. Artistic director Maestro Valery Gergiev blended a number of unique elements to bring Leo Tolstoy’s epic to life, including his own conducting of Rodion Shchedrin’s modern score.
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