Featuring Anastasia Kolegova, Even Capitaine, Maxim Zyuzin, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Olesya Novikova, Oxana Skorik, Timur Askerov, Andrei Yermakov
Featuring Sergei Semishkur, Svetlana Karpova, Violetta Lukyanenko, Evgenia Muravieva, Yevgeny Nikitin, Andrei Serov, Vadim Kravets
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Anastasia Donets, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Dmitry Grigoriev, Stepan Zavalishin
Yuri Kokko (piano)
Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Renata Shakirova, Konstantin Zverev
Featuring Irina Churilova, Alexander Mikhailov, Zinaida Tsarenko, Violetta Lukyanenko, Alexander Gerasimov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Vladimir Shklyarov, Elena Yevseyeva, Alexander Sergeev
Featuring Xeniya Grigorieva, Mikhail Petrenko, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Sergei Skorokhodov, Elena Vitman
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Alexander Kliuchko (piano), Bogdan Yefremov (cello), Andrei Taranukha (percussion)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Nikolai Tsinman
Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Nikita Korneyev, Maria Shirinkina, Roman Belyakov
Featuring Tatiana Serjan, Anna Kiknadze, Akhmed Agadi, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Soloists: Amin Ghafari (violin), Reza Fekri (tenor)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rahbari
Featuring Anastasia Nuikina, Anton Osetrov, Lea Thomasson, Soslan Kulaev
Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Maria Shirinkina, Yevgeny Konovalov, Anastasia Kolegova, Roman Belyakov
Soloist: Oleg Vainshtein (piano)
Symphony Orchestra Northern Symphony
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
a theatrical concert
Violetta Lukyanenko, Zhannat Dombrovskaya, Alexander Trofimov, Viktor Korotich
Alexander Rubinov (piano)
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Roman Malyshev
Featuring Anastasia Lukina, Alexander Sergeev
On 18 March which marks the anniversary of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov's birth, promises a captivating concert by the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. This musical homage in the composer's native town is set to be the highlight of a spectacular festival initiated by the exchange tours between the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and the Mariinsky Theatre, commemorating Rimsky-Korsakov's 180th birth anniversary
On 22 and 23 March the Tikhvin audience will be presented with the opera The Tsar's Bride, symphonic and chamber concerts. The program will feature soloists from the opera companies of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres, the choir, and a combined orchestra from both theatres, all under the baton of Valery Gergiev
From 11 to 13 March, the Mariinsky Theatre will embarkon a three-day tour at the Moscow Concert Hall "Zaryadye," where audiences can anticipate performances by opera and ballet stars: Diana Vishneva, Kimin Kim, Mikhail Petrenko, and Ekaterina Sergeeva, along with the Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev
In the city of Aleksin, where the distinguished contemporary composer Rodion Shchedrin grew up, the Shchedrins' House-Museum will be established. This announcement was made at a joint press conference on 25 February by Valery Gergiev, General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Alexey Dyumin, Governor of the Tula Region
In celebration of the 180th anniversary of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's birth, Moscow and St Petersburg will host grand exchange tours of the opera companies from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres. From 23 to 25 February the Mariinsky's opera company will grace the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi with the composer's masterpieces: The Maid of Pskov, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, and Christmas Eve. Valery Gergiev will conduct all the operas