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—PERSPECTIVES: VALERY GERGIEV—

CONDUCTOR VALERY GERGIEV LEADS THREE RENOWNED ORCHESTRAS AT CARNEGIE HALL THROUGHOUT 2007–2008 SEASON

Gergiev’s Perspectives Begins December 1, 2, and 4 with the Kirov Orchestra and
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre Performing Russian Theatrical Works

Gergiev Returns February 29, March 1 and 2, Leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Masterpieces by Wagner, Debussy, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky, among others

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev also Features Prokofiev’s War and Peace and
The Gambler, in Partnership with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as an
All-Mussorgsky Program with The MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on May 18
This season, Carnegie Hall presents conductor Valery Gergiev in a nine-event Perspectives series that showcases the Russian city of St. Petersburg as an artistic crossroads and a city of musical intersections. Over the course of the year, Gergiev leads three of the world’s premier ensembles at Carnegie Hall: the Kirov Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and The MET Orchestra. In December with the Kirov, Gergiev is joined by the chorus and soloists of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre—where Gergiev serves as Artistic Director—for a number of famous Russian theatrical works rarely heard outside the opera house, including Act I of Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, and Act II of Borodin’s Prince Igor. Gergiev returns in Spring 2008, leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in programs of symphonic masterpieces, before conducting The MET Orchestra in an all-Mussorgsky program. St. Petersburg’s musical impact is explored still further in a special partnership between Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera, where Gergiev will conduct Prokofiev’s War and Peace and The Gambler as part of his Perspectives.

December 2007: Gergiev Leads the Kirov Orchestra in Russian Theatrical Works
Perspectives: Valery Gergiev commences this December with the conductor leading the Kirov Orchestra, and the chorus and soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre in three programs at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, each featuring a Russian theatrical work based on classic Russian literature and folklore. On Saturday, December 1 at 8:00 p.m., Gergiev leads a performance of Act I from Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla, after Pushkin’s epic poem, paired with Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps (“The Rite of Spring”). On Sunday, December 2 at 2:00 p.m., the conductor leads the assembled forces of the Mariinsky Theatre in a concert performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, based on Ostrovsky’s springtime parable. In the concluding concert, on Tuesday, December 4 at 8:00 p.m., Gergiev conducts the Kirov in Stravinsky’s Les Noces, for four pianos, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra (itself based on 19th century Russian texts and folk traditions), before concluding the performance with Act II of Borodin’s Prince Igor, based on the 12th-century epic, one of Russia’s first literary classics. (See below for complete list of soloists.)

Spring 2008: Gergiev Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and The MET Orchestra
Gergiev continues his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall in Spring 2008. On Friday, February 29 at 8:00 p.m., in the first of three consecutive concerts leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a wide range of orchestral masterworks, Gergiev conducts excerpts from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and Debussy’s La Mer. On Saturday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m., he returns to lead the Philharmonic in Debussy’s Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune, Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony, and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor with soloist Yefim Bronfman, also part of the pianist’s own season-long Perspectives series. To conclude the series with the Vienna Philharmonic, Gergiev conducts the orchestra in the overture to Verdi’s La forza del destino, Liszt’s Les Préludes, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E Minor on Sunday, March 2 at 2:00 p.m.

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev concludes on Sunday, May 18 at 3:00 p.m. with the conductor leading The MET Orchestra in an all-Mussorgsky program that includes A Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel), and Songs and Dances of Death and “I Have Attained the Highest Power” from Boris Godunov featuring bass René Pape.


Perspectives: Valery Gergiev at the Metropolitan Opera
In a special partnership with the Metropolitan Opera, Perspectives: Valery Gergiev also features the conductor in the orchestra pit, leading predominantly Russian casts in two operas, War and Peace and The Gambler, by Prokofiev, a composer Gergiev has particularly championed over the course of his career. Gergiev leads seven performances of War and Peace, based on the epic Tolstoy novel, from December 10 to 28. In spring 2008, he returns to The Met to conduct The Gambler, based on the Dostoyevsky tale, in five performances, March 27 to April 12.


About the Artist
Valery Gergiev’s inspired leadership as Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre has brought universal acclaim to this legendary institution. Together with the Kirov Opera, Ballet, and Orchestra, Gergiev has toured in forty-five countries including extensive tours throughout North America, South America, Europe, China, Japan, Australia, Turkey, Jordan, and Israel. This season, he celebrates his 20th anniversary as Artistic Director as the Mariinsky Theatre celebrates its 225th season. Gergiev is currently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He is Founder and Artistic Director of the Stars of the White Nights Festival, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Gergiev Rotterdam Festival, the Mikkeli International Festival, and the New Horizons Festival, a contemporary music festival in the new Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall.

Born in Moscow to Ossetian parents, Gergiev studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. At age 24, he was the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Conductors’ Competition in Berlin. He made his Kirov Opera debut one year later in 1978 conducting Prokofiev’s War and Peace and in 2003 he led a considerable portion of St. Petersburg’s 300th anniversary celebration, conducted the globally televised anniversary gala attended by 50 heads of state, and opened the Carnegie Hall season with the Kirov Orchestra, the first Russian conductor to do so since Tchaikovsky conducted the first-ever concert in Carnegie Hall.

Gergiev is the recipient of the Dmitri Shostakovich Award, the Golden Mask Award, the People’s Artist of Russia, and the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award. In 2005 he won the Polar Music Prize (Sweden) for exceptional international performance and leadership and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands made Valery Gergiev a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. In 2006, Gergiev received Japan´s highest award—the Order of the Rising Sun—as well as the Silver Medal, the highest award of Valencia, Spain. He is also the 2007 winner of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (France) and his recording won the Orphée d’or de l’Académie du disque lyrique.

Gergiev has recorded exclusively for Decca (Universal Classics), but appears also on Philips and DG labels. His vast discography includes many Russian operas (introduced to international audiences by his initiative), a cycle of Shostakovich “War Symphonies” (Nos.4-9), and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic among many others. Maestro Gergiev’s recording with London Symphony Orchestra of Prokofiev’s complete Symphonies won the 2007 Gramophone award for the Best Orchestral Performance.

Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives
Now in its ninth season, Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series is an artistic initiative in which select musicians are invited to explore their own musical individuality and create their own personal concert series through collaborations with other musicians and ensembles. Other artists presenting Perspectives during the 2007–2008 season are pianist Yefim Bronfman and vocal innovator/conductor Bobby McFerrin.

Previous Perspectives artists have included conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim; conductors Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Robertson; violinist Gidon Kremer; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, and Mitsuko Uchida; soprano Dawn Upshaw; bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff; the Emerson String Quartet; Senegalese vocalist Youssou N’Dour; Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso; and experimental rocker David Byrne.


Program Information for Perspectives: Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall


Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
KIROV ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre
   Mikhail Kit, Bass (Svetozar, Prince of Kiev)
   Liudmila Dudinova, Soprano (Liudmila, his daughter)
   Vadim Kravets, Bass (Ruslan)
   Evgeny Akimov, Tenor (Bayan, a Bard)
   Zlata Bulycheva, Mezzo-Soprano (Ratmir)
   Alexei Tanovitski, Bass (Farlaf)
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Andrei Petreko, Chorus Master

MIKHAIL GLINKA Act I of Ruslan and Ludmilla
IGOR STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps

This concert is underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

Tickets: $42, $52, $69, $97, $128, $142
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Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
KIROV ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre
   Evgeny Akimov, Tenor (Berendei)
   Olga Savova, Mezzo-Soprano (Red Spring)
   Alexei Tanovitski, Bass (Father Frost)
   Alexander Gergalov, Baritone (Mizgir)
   Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Soprano (Kupava)
   Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mezzo-Soprano (Lehl)
   Andrei Popov, Tenor (Bachelor)
   Nadezhda Vasilieva, Mezzo-Soprano (Spinster)
   Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor (First Herald)
   Alexander Nikitin, Baritone (Second Herald, Pancake)
   Vadim Kravets, Bass (Bermyata)
   Vasily Gorshkov, Tenor (Wood Goblin)
   Maria Matveeva, Soprano (Young Man) Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Andrei Petreko, Chorus Master

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Snow Maiden (Concert Performance)

This concert is underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

Tickets: $42, $52, $69, $97, $128, $142
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
KIROV ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre (Prince Igor)
   Evgeny Nikitin, Tenor (Igor Sviatoslavich, Prince of Seversk)
   Sergei Semishkur, Tenor (Vladimir Igorevich, Igor's Son)
   Alexey Tanovitski, Bass (Khan Konchak, Polovetsian leader)
   Zlata Bulycheva, Mezzo-Soprano (Konchakovna, Konchak's Daughter)
   Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Soprano (Polovetsian girl)
   Vasily Gorshkov, Tenor (Ovlur, a Polovetsian)
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre (Les noces)
   Mlada Khydoley, Soprano
   Nadezhda Serdiuk, Mezzo-Soprano
   Alexander Timchenko, Tenor
   Gennady Bezzubenkov, Bass
Alexander Mogilevsky, Piano
Julia Mogilevsky, Piano
Maxim Mogilevsky, Piano
Svetlana Smolina, Piano
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Andrei Petreko, Chorus Master

IGOR STRAVINSKY Les noces
ALEXANDER BORODIN Act II of Prince Igor

This concert is underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

Sponsored by Smith Barney.

Tickets: $42, $52, $69, $97, $128, $142
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Friday, February 29, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Conductor

HECTOR BERLIOZ Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17
RICHARD WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
CLAUDE DEBUSSY La Mer

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Herbert von Karajan

Sponsored by DeWitt Stern Group, Inc.

Tickets: $62, $77, $102, $144, $189, $210
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Perspectives: Yefim Bronfman

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"

This concert is made possible, in part, by the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.

Tickets: $62, $77, $102, $144, $189, $210
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Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Conductor

GIUSEPPE VERDI Overture to La forza del destino
FRANZ LISZT Les Préludes
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

This concert is made possible, in part, by the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.

Tickets: $62, $77, $102, $144, $189, $210
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
THE MET ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
René Pape, Bass

ALL-MUSSORGSKY PROGRAM
A Night on Bald Mountain (original version)
Songs and Dances of Death
"I Have Attained the Highest Power" from Boris Godunov
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Tickets: $48, $59, $79, $111, $146, $162
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Perspectives concerts are made possible, in part, by a generous grant from The Alice Tully Foundation.

Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.


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