The Iolanta opera performed by the troop of Mariinsky Theater will open the program of Russian Seasons in Berlin, on January 7, the Ministry of Culture of Russia reports on its website. Dozens of events will be held in different towns of Germany throughout 2019 - exhibitions, performances, concerts, film festivals, etc.
In 2018, the Russian Seasons gathered about six million viewers and visitors in concert halls, theaters and museums of Italy.
Russian Seasons will open on January 7 in the Berlin Philharmonic. After the solemn ceremony world-famous musicians and artists of the Mariinsky Theater will perform Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta. The artistic director of the theater, Valery Gergiev said that he was pleased to open Russian Seasons and that the concept of the project related to him very much.
According to the Russian ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev, the main goal of the Russian Seasons is to bring the nations together and develop friendly relations between the countries. Russia will show the German spectators the best creative groups and museum collections - the Vakhtangov Theater, the Alexandrinsky Theater, the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, the Helikon-Opera Theater and many other groups will present their art as part of the cultural project. The exhibitions of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and other Russian museums, including regional ones, will open at various venues in Germany.
Russkiy Mir
