Featuring Aigul Khismatullina, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vladimir Moroz, Vadim Kravets
Featuring Alexey Markov, Maria Bayankina, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Miroslav Molchanov
Soloists, Choir and Symphony Orchestra Northern Symphony of the Chaliapin Musical Theatre
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Featuring Oxana Shilova, Laura Bustamante, Ramiz Usmanov, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Stanislav Trofimov
Programme: choral works by Korolyov, Banevich and Smirnov
Сonductor: Elena Kurnosenko
Featuring Olesya Novikova, Oxana Skorik, Kristina Shapran, Camilla Mazzi, Yevgeny Konovalov, Kian Mangis, Ivan Sotnikov
Featuring Tatiana Serjan, Akhmed Agadi, Ksenia Dudnikova, Alexey Markov
Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers
Featuring Alexander Sergeev, Maria Shirinkina, Aaron Osawa-Horowitz, Valeria Kuznetsova
Olga Kotlyarova (organ)
The Mariinsky Opera soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov
Featuring Nikita Korneyev, Alexandra Khiteeva, Nikita Zakharov, Ekaterina Kondaurova
Programme: Bach, Handel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Shchedrin, Tchaikovsky
Anastasia Kalagina (soprano), Dina Zikeyeva, Inna Demchenko (violin), Yekaterina Garshina, Alevtina Alexeyeva (viola), Vladimir Yunovich, Yulia Saakian (cello), Maria Arsenieva (flute), Elena Plotnikova (harp), Yuri Alexeyev (percussion), Yuri Kokko (piano)
On 1 October the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev performed in Yerevan. The soloist was Pavel Milyukov, Honoured Artist of Russia and a prize-winner of major international violin competitions. The performance took place at the city’s main venue, the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, as part of the 17th Yerevan International Music Festival
For the first time the Sevastopol State Opera and Ballet Theatre will perform in St Petersburg, presenting two major premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre. The tour programme includes the ballet Polikushka to the music of Rachmaninoff, choreographed by Jonah Paul Cook, and Rachmaninoff’s opera Aleko staged by Ildar Abdrazakov. International stars Ildar Abdrazakov, Dinara Alieva and Maria Alexandrova will take part in the performances. Aleko will be conducted by Valery Gergiev
From 9 to 12 October the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will tour St Petersburg with five performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s comic ballet The Bright Stream at the Mariinsky II. The production features leading stars of the Moscow stage. Set designer: Boris Messerer. Conductor: Pavel Sorokin. Lighting designer: Igor Deryugin
In the new season the Mariinsky Theatre continues to honour the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose 165th anniversary is being widely celebrated this year. At the beginning of September Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present works by the symphonic genius at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, while a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform under maestro Gergiev on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre
In the new season the Mariinsky Theatre continues to honour the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose 165th anniversary is being widely celebrated this year. At the beginning of September Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present works by the symphonic genius at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, while a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform under maestro Gergiev on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre