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Valery Gergiev has been named an Honorary Member of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft

The Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra will be performing under Valery Gergiev in Dresden and Salzburg on 27 and 28 May

The Mariinsky label’s discs featuring recordings of works by Jules Massenet, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Rodion Shchedrin have received further accolades from the international press

On 13 May Timur Askerov will be making his debut as Ferkhad in Arif Melikov’s ballet The Legend of Love (choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)

Ballet dancers Yekaterina Kondaurova, Oxana Skorik, Kim Kimin and Timur Askerov have been nominated for and received several prestigious awards

On 10 May Vladimir Shklyarov and Konstantin Zverev will be making their debuts as Ferkhad and the Vizier respectively in Yuri Grigorovich’s ballet The Legend of Love to music by Arif Melikov

The Mariinsky label’s recording of Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte featuring the legendary Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role has received lavish praise from British critics

Due to ill health maestro Kurt Masur has cancelled his appearance due to take place on 16 May at the Concert Hall

On 7 May as part of the XI Moscow Easter Festival Olga Borodina and Vladimir Galouzine will be performing in Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina under the baton of Valery Gergiev at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre

On 5 and 6 May the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra will be performing at Munich’s Philharmonie as part of the project Gergiev’s Shostakovich