Gergiev merges Bolshoi and Mariinsky for Rimsky festival

This is how it’s going to be. Bulletin from the Bolshoi:

For the first time in many years, the Mariinsky Theatre toured at the Bolshoi of Russia Historic Stage. On February
23, 24 and 25 – The Maid of Pskov, Christmas Eve (February 24) and The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the
Maiden Fevronia (February 25) were performed as part of the Festival in Honour of the 180th Anniversary of the Birth of
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The General Director of the Bolshoi, Artistic Director and Director of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev conducted the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra.

Exchange tours of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres,
as well as a joint performance of both companies in RimskyKorsakov’s home town in Tikhvin, will become the key events
of a large-scale festival dedicated to the 180th anniversary
of the birth of the great Russian composer.
February 23, the Historic Stage – opera The Maid of Pskov,
with a prologue The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga, libretto by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov after the drama by Lev Mey, opened
the Mariinsky Theatre tour at the Bolshoi.

The Maid of Pskov is Rimsky-Korsakov’s first-born opera
and the most “difficult child”. This is the only work in world
operatic literature the author kept working on, in one form
or another, for 35 years.

The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
Music Director – Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Stage Director – Yuri Laptev
Sets and Costumes – Pyotr Okunev
Sets and costumes by Fyodor Fyodorovsky from opera
The Maid of Pskov (production by Yuri Laptev)
The Maid of Pskov
Music Director – Valery Gergiev
Revival Stage Director – Yuri Laptev
Revival Designer – Vyacheslav Okunev
Revival Costume Designer – Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer – Damir Ismagilov
Chief Chorus Master – Konstantin Rylov
Synopsis
February 24, the Historic Stage – Christmas Eve
February 25 – The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
and the Maiden Fevronia
The large-scale festival is dedicated to the musical
heritage of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and timed to coincide
with the 180th anniversary of the composer’s birth (events will
also be widely presented at the Mariinsky Primorsky Stage in
Vladivostok and at its branch stage in the Republic of North
Ossetia-Alania in Vladikavkaz)