Mariinsky Orchestra
Known for ActingSt. Petersburg, Russia
The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra or just the Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly known as the Kirov Orchestra) is located in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. The orchestra was founded in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great, it was known before the revolution as the Russian Imperial Opera Orchestra. The orchestra is one of the oldest musical institutions in Russia.
In 1935 Joseph Stalin changed its name (and that of the Ballet) to the Kirov, after Sergei Kirov, the first secretary of the Communist Party in Leningrad, whose 1934 murder by his regime Stalin was attempting to whitewash.[1] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the name was changed back to the Mariinsky in 1992.
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The current artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre is the conductor Valery Gergiev and the principal guest conductor is Nikolaj Znaider. Under Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra has become one of the leading symphony orchestras in Russia.
Known for
Boris Godunov
1990 · as Self - Orchestra
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'Swan Lake' 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
2007
The Golden Cockerel
2014
Ruslan and Lyudmila
1996
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'The Nutcracker' 2012 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
2012 · as Orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
2016
Tchaikovsky: Simphonies 4,5 & 6 - Valery Gergiev
2011 · as Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 - Gergiev
2011
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
2002
The Nutcracker
1994
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Daniil Trifonov, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
Dimitri Shostakovitch - Concerto for violin and Orchestra No.2, Symphony No.7 'Leningrad'
Attila
2010
The Mariinsky II Opening Gala
2015 · as Orchestra
Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes: The Firebird / The Rite of Spring
2009
Sadko
1994