Results of the II International Far East Festival Mariinsky in Vladivostok

• 28 days – 40 performances and concerts;
• More than five hundred performers and musicians from twelve countries;
• Concert halls in Vladivostok, Ussuriisk, South Sakhalin, Harbin (People's Republic of China), Pyeongchang (South Korea) and Tongyeong (South Korea);
• Audiences of around fifty thousand from Russia, Asia and Europe;
• An extremely broad international programme;
• The first tour by the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre to Harbin (People's Republic of China).

13 August saw the grand closing ceremony of the II International Far East Festival Mariinsky. The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre hosted its first performance of Carl Orff's canata Carmina Burana with Mariinsky Theatre soloists Anastasia Kalagina, Vladimir Moroz and Stanislav Leontiev and the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre under Justus Frantz (Germany).

During the festival in Vladivostok the Mariinsky Ballet presented the Far East audience with The Little Humpbacked Horse (choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.
One key event of the ballet playbill came with a performance by Vladimir Shklyarov, Principal Dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre and the Bayerisches Staatsballett, and Natalia Osipova, Prima Ballerina of London's Royal Ballet, who appeared on-stage in the Far East premiere of the ballet Marguerite and Armand (choreography by Frederick Ashton). Other significant events in the programme included gala concerts by the National Ballet of China featuring Act II from the ballet La Sylphide, the finale of the ballet Yellow River, the miniature Prelude and the ballet Song of Life. Repertoire performances by the Primorsky Stage also saw appearances by festival guests – the dazzling South Korean ballerina Soo Bin Lee and soloists of the Liaoning Ballet (China) Zhang Haidong and Yu Chuanya.

As part of the festival's international programme, the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre undertook its first tour. On 9 and 10 August in Harbin (China) there were performances of Adolphe Adam's ballet Le Corsaire (revised version by Eldar Aliev).

The opera playbill of the II International Far East Festival Mariinsky in Vladivostok presented audiences with a series of premieres: Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Richard Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, Rodion Shchedrin's The Enchanted Wanderer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. The performances and concerts saw appearances by the finest soloists of the Mariinsky Opera: Tatiana Serjan, Vladislav Sulimsky, Yevgeny Nikitin, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Skorokhodov, Yevgeny Akimov, Elena Stikhina, Mlada Khudoley, Roman Burdenko, Yulia Matochkina, Vladimir Moroz, Vladimir Feliauer, Otar Jorjikia, Oleg Sychov, Ekaterina Sergeyeva, Anastasia Kalagina, Violetta Lukyanenko and Yevgeny Akhmedov as well as guest soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre Irina Churilova, Dmitry Grigoriev and Kirill Zharovin. Key events included performances in Vladivostok by Albina Shagimuratova, one of the world's greatest singers, and Shenyang (China), winner of the legendary BBC Cardiff Singer of the World international competition.

As part of the symphony music programme, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre gave its first performances of works by Igor Stravinsky (Pétrouchka and Le Sacre du printemps), Rodion Shchedrin (Piano Concerto No 1), Max Bruch (Violin Concerto No 1) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Violin Concerto No 5). Soloists in the symphony music concerts included the outstanding young musicians Ziyu He, prize-winner at the XVII International Yehudi Menuhin Competition (violin, China), Kanon Matsuda, prize-winner at international competitions (piano, Japan), Daniel Lozakovich, prize-winner at the XVI International Yehudi Menuhin Competition (violin, Sweden) and Clara-Jumi Kang, prize-winner at the XV International Pyotr Tchaikovsky Competition (violin, Germany). As part of the Rachmaninoff Series, which featured all of the composer's piano concerti, the soloists were Sergei Babayan (USA), Ivan Bessonov (Russia), George Harliono (Great Britain), Ming Xie (China) and Dmitri Levkovich (Canada). Dmitri Levkovich also gave a recital and was noted by both the public and the critics. The highlight of the symphony music programme came with the first appearance in Vladivostok by the talented Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii.

At the Mariinsky festival, audiences saw the Chamber Ensemble of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre for the first time. Under violinist and conductor Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, leader of the Münchner Philharmoniker and head of the Stradivarius Ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre, the ensemble performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ottorino Respighi, Astor Piazzolla and Antonio Vivaldi. Moreover, the festival programme also included an open master-class by Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici.

The new season at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will continue to perform the finest productions in its opera repertoire: Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (18 August), Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (19 August), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (20 August) and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (26 August).

The Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre set off on a tour to St Petersburg, where it will perform for the first time from 15 to 20 August at the historic Mariinsky Theatre. The next performance by the company in Vladivostok will be Giselle (25 August), while on 27 August the company will give two performances of the legendary ballet Carmen-Suite (choreography by Alberto Alonso).