Press-releases

The first American press reviews of the Mariinsky Ballet’s tour to the Kennedy Center have been published

On 11 January the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting the ballet La Bayadère with Diana Vishneva, Anastasia Kolegova and Yevgeny Ivanchenko to mark one century since the birth of the outstanding dancer Semyon Kaplan

On 26 and 27 December and 24 January the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann – the first opera premiere of the season; Valery Gergiev will be conducting the production, directed by Vasily Barkhatov and designed by Zinovy Margolin with costumes by Maria Danilova

1 – 8 December 2011
Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall

In early November in Munich Valery Gergiev unveiled the Mariinsky Theatre and the Munich Philharmonie’s new joint project – Gergiev’s Shostakovich.

During the marathon of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s symphonies between 28 and 30 October, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra presented the XIV Tchaikovsky Competition prize-winners at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

On 19, 20 and 21 October as part of the Year of Russia and Italy the Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting a tour by the oldest theatre in Europe: two hundred and fifty people from the orchestra, chorus, opera company, stage staff and acrobats have arrived from Naples to give two performances of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera I pagliacci (staged by Daniele Finzi Pasca) as well as a gala concert.

In the 2011–2012 season at the Mariinsky Theatre and the Concert Hall audiences will be presented with a huge variety of interesting concert programmes, opera and ballet premieres, performances by acclaimed ballet and opera stars and symphony and chamber music.

21 and 23 July will see the final premiere of the season at the Stars of the White Nights festival. The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream, based on William Shakespeare’s comedy. On 21 July one of the lead roles – the simple Bottom – will be performed by the outstanding British singer Sir Willard White and Valery Gergiev will be conducting.

BP and the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg’s renowned opera and ballet company, today announced a joint programme that will give music lovers in the United Kingdom the chance to experience the very best of Russian opera, ballet and classical music. BP will provide support for the Mariinsky Opera, Ballet and Orchestra tours to the UK in the three years to 2013.