IN'JOY News

Mariinsky Thater Second Stage will be opened one week earlier — 02nd of May. Diamond Schmitt Architects is set to complete a new home for the Mariinsky Opera, Orchestra, and Ballet, directly across the street from the old Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.

Complementing the city’s 19th-century architecture while adding a distinctive contemporary element, the new building will be one of the largest opera facilities in the world. Features include a main stage and rehearsal stage with multiple support areas; rehearsal rooms; dining and production space for 2,500 staff members; and a rooftop amphitheater.

The 2012-2013 season of the Mariinsky Theatre marks the 25^th anniversary of the leadership of General and Artistic Director Maestro Valery Gergiev, who has built the Mariinsky into one of the largest, most acclaimed and most dynamic performing arts institutions in the world. The Mariinsky will celebrate this anniversary with an impressive schedule of tours, performances, recordings and events, and will usher in a new era of even greater artistic possibilities with the inauguration of the new Mariinsky Theatre (Mariinsky II). The new opera house, funded by the Russian Government, is among the largest in the world, capable of supporting the most demanding productions. When it opens in May 2013, it will join the legendary Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall to further the transformation of the Mariinsky’s complex into one of the world’s premier centers for classical music, opera and ballet.