From 14 to 23 January the Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting the traditional tour by the ballet company of the Primorsky Stage. For several years in a row now, at the end of the January holidays the Far-East stage of the Mariinsky Theatre has been bringing its versions of popular productions to St Petersburg which have their own unique and inimitable style. During the previous five visits the dancers succeeded in winning acclaim from St Petersburg audiences

On 10 January at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be an evening in memory of Yoko Ceschina – a musician, patron of the arts and friend of the Mariinsky Theatre who died in January 2015. The programme About Love, Joy and Woe on the Strings of the Harp includes the Harp Concerto and Suite No 2 from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel, the introduction to the ballet The Bronze Horseman by Glière and Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo, arranged for the harp

In January, Valery Gergiev will be running a series of performances in Vienna – one of the world’s oldest music capitals. The maestro will conduct Wagner’s opera Lohengrin at the Wiener Staatsoper and present a series of concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker

On 30 December the historic Mariinsky Theatre will host the 500^th performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Mazepa since the premiere

Ticket sales have opened for events in March at the Mariinsky Theatre. That month, the theatre will be running three festivals at the same time – two instrumental music festivals and the much-loved ballet festival