Press-releases

25 and 26 May and 26 June will see the premiere of a new production of Modest Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov at the Mariinsky Theatre by renowned British stage director Graham Vick under the musical direction of Valery Gergiev. The performance on 25 May opens the XX Stars of the White Nights music festival. That evening, the role of Boris will be performed by Yevgeny Nikitin.

The Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting the premiere of a new production of Claude Debussy’s opera based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande on 13 April at 19:00, on 14 April at 14:00 and on 18 April at 20:00

8 – 14 April 2012
Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre

25 May – 15 July 2012
Mariinsky Theatre and the Concert Hall
Artistic Director: Valery Gergiev

Ballets by Marius Petipa, August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Roland Petit, Maurice Béjart, Angelin Preljocaj and Alexei Ratmansky performed by stars of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, London’s Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, the Wiener Staatsoper, Het Nationale Ballet and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne

In view of the tremendous public interest in this new production, the theatre will be staging an additional performance of My Fair Lady on 20 February at 14:00

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