From 23 July to 4 August the historic Mariinsky Theatre will host a traditional summer tour by the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. This year the company is coming to St Petersburg for the fifth time

On 18 July the XXVI Verbier Festival opens with a concert by the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev, who since 2018 has been the ensemble's Music Director

On 24 and 28 October at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev will be conducting the first premiere of the 2019-20 season – Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. The Stage Director, Costume Designer and Set Designer, in collaboration with Marsel Kalmagambetov, is Anna Matison

On 14 July at Odeonsplatz in Munich there will be a concert by Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker as part of the 2018-19 season. The monograph programme of the traditional open-air Klassik am Odeonsplatz will be dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven and includes the overture Corolian, Symphony No 5 and Piano Concerto No 5

On 9 July as part of the Year of Music of Great Britain and Russia the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the Russian premiere of contemporary British composer George Benjamin's opera Lessons in Love and Violence (concert performance). Guest soloists and the London Chamber Orchestra – Great Britain's oldest chamber music ensemble – will be led by Oliver Zeffman, a young conductor famed for his active support of contemporary music