Ekaterina Kondaurova

The Mariinsky Theatre opens its door to opera and ballet performances

11 July 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

After last night’s socially distanced concert by Denis Matsuev at the Mariinsky Theatre – which was streamed live on the theatre’s YouTube channel – the mini-season for the Stars of the White Nights festival will continue today with a concert performance of Samson et Dalila this afternoon, followed by a ballet gala this evening with Ekaterina Kondaurova, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Xander Parish, and Vladimir Shklyarov.

The gala will be repeated tomorrow, Sunday 12 July, in the afternoon, followed by

Saved by the corps! The Mariinsky under par for Swan Lake in Turin

19 December 2017 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The buzz of anticipation in the theatre wasn’t matched by the Mariinsky Ballet’s performance at Turin’s Teatro Regio. Maybe the company decided not to field its top players because it was the ‘pensioners’ matinée’ but, for the Mariinsky, this Swan Lake was under par. The first technical feats in the company’s production are presented by […]

Kondaurova, Ermakov and the Mariinsky girls triumph in La Bayadère in Turin

27 October 2011 by gramilano 1 Comment

The Mariinsky Ballet are entering their last week of a three-week run at Turin’s Teatro Regio, after a week of their Fokine programme, a week of Bayadères, and now they start on their twelve Swan Lakes. The Regio’s modern theatre was designed for opera and leaves the dancer, especially the male ballet dancer, shortchanged. Andrey […]

Critics round-up: Mariinsky at Covent Garden, Don Quixote

15 August 2011 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The third ballet programme brought to London by the Marrinsky Ballet was Don Quixote, the perennial crowd-pleaser with which the Bolshoi scored such a success a year ago. Strangely only two days of their three-week stay was devoted to this classic, but they scored another hit nevertheless. As The Times noted, What a shame there […]

Critics round-up: Mariinsky at Covent Garden, Homage to Fokine

14 August 2011 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The second of six programmes brought to London by the Mariinsky was a triple bill of Mikhail Fokine’s choreography: Chopiniana, The Firebird and Scheherazade. The Times explained the programming: In the space of two years, Mikhail Fokine created a trio of works that helped to change our perception of classical ballet. Chopinianaembodied the very idea of abstract ballet; The Firebird was a dramatic […]