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Information for representatives of the media

The Mariinsky label has prepared a special gift for all music lovers in commemoration of Wagner’s birthday

21 May will see several debuts in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia

On 19 May Kim Kimin will be making his debut as Prince Siegfried in the ballet Swan Lake. That evening Kim Kimin will be partnered by Anna Nikulina, a Lead Soloist of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre

29 April 2013 saw the release of the label’s twentieth disc – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Attila with Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role

On 18, 19 and 20 May the Mariinsky Ballet, Chorus and Orchestra will be performing at the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg under the baton of Valery Gergiev

On 13 May baritone Viktor Korotich will be performing the role of Valentin in Charles Gounod’s opera Faust for the first time (production by Isabella Bywater).

On 14 May Vladimir Shklyarov will be performing the title role in George Balanchine’s ballet Prodigal Son for the first time

As part of the Moscow Easter Festival which opened on 5 May, Valery Gergiev has already conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra in a series of acclaimed performances in towns throughout Russia