In the framework of the annual festival "Easter Spring", the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra arrived in Tatarstan. Maestro Valery Gergiev says that in Kazan the orchestra performed 17 times, in Naberezhnye Chelny - four.

Gergiev recalls that it was the first president of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, who prompted him to hold the festival. Then in 2001 during the meeting the famous conductor was struck by the political talent, leadership qualities and wisdom of Shaimiev. True on Tuesday, music came to a man in the truest sense of the word - a concert of symphonic music was held directly in the production shop of the auto giant PJSC "KAMAZ". The initiator and inspirer of such a speech was the general director of the auto giant and the friend of the conductor Sergei Kogogin. And the stage was built from the bodies of six KAMAZ trucks. Dressing rooms for artists made in the shops. However, and this is not so unusual for the Mariinsky artists. They performed both on the ruins of ancient Palmyra, and in the deserted from the battles of Tskhinval (South Ossetia), and in the shocked Kemerovo. Artists performed at stations, improvised venues, in the most unexpected places.

April 24 the program was designed for lunch break from 12 to 13 hours. Waltz of colors "and" Adagio "from the ballet" The Nutcracker "by Peter Tchaikovsky were performed," Pictures from an exhibition "by Modest Mussorgsky.

In turn, another city of the republic - Almetyevsk. The first Moscow Easter Festival was held in 2002. This season, concerts in the framework of the festival will be given in 145 cities of 5 countries.

Participants and guests of the festival were congratulated by President Vladimir Putin.