The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Prize-winning soloists – 1st prize and Gold Medal laureates Vladimir Vishnevsky and Rui Ming (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Oleg Khudyakov (1st prize and Gold Medal)
Featuring Yekaterina Latysheva, Roman Shirokikh, Daryana Bobarykina, Vladislav Kupriyanov
Featuring Irina Churilova, Denis Zakirov, Stanislav Trofimov, Gamid Abdulov, Maxim Daminov, Svetlana Karpova
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Alexander Trofimov, Andrei Serov, Yekaterina Latysheva
Featuring Mikhail Kolelishvili, Anna Barkhatova, Mikhail Vekua, Oxana Shilova, Varvara Solovyova, Natalia Chasovitina, Elena Vitman
Featuring Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov, Lana Kos, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Narrator: Oleg Senchenko
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Prize-winning soloist – 3rd prize and Bronze Medal laureate Philip Rudenko (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductors: Alexei Aslanov, Yuri Demidovich (3rd prize and Bronze Medal)
Featuring Vladimir Moroz, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Diana Kazanlieva
Featuring Roman Shirokikh, Oxana Shilova, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Featuring Angelina Akhmedova, Gamid Abdulov, Vyacheslav Vasiliev
Featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Inara Kozlovskaya, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Igor Morozov
Featuring Anna Denisova, Yegor Chubakov, Andrei Serov, Oleg Sychov, Elena Vitman, Kristina Gontsa
Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Daria Kulikova
Soloists: Eva Gevorgyan (piano), Anna Kiknadze (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp
Featuring Renata Shakirova, Philipp Stepin, Maria Chernyvskaya
Featuring Zhang Lu (guqin), soloist of the musicians association Jun Tian Fang
Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine, Alexandra Khiteeva
Featuring Oxana Skorik, Timur Askerov, Ekaterina Kondaurova
Featuring Tatiana Serjan, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Maxim Zyuzin, Konstantin Zverev, Alexei Timofeyev, Yaroslav Baibordin
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Alexander Sergeev, Roman Belyakov, Roman Malyshev, Maxim Izmestiev
Featuring Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Irina Shishkova, Dmitry Golovnin, Vyacheslav Vasiliev
Featuring Inara Kozlovskaya, Zinaida Tsarenko, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Pavel Yankovsky
Featuring Irina Churilova, Anna Kiknadze, Akhmed Agadi, Alexey Markov
Soloist: Elizaveta Ukrainskaia (piano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Timur Askerov, Roman Belyakov, Maria Shirinkina, Yekaterina Osmolkina, Yevgeny Konovalov, Camilla Mazzi, Valeria Kuznetsova, Vlada Borodulina
Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Philipp Stepin, Nadezhda Batoeva, Alexei Timofeyev
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductors: Nikolai Tsinman, Yixing Sun (2nd prize and Silver Medal)
Performed by Alexander Kniazev (piano)
Featuring Maria Khoreva, Nikita Korneyev, Danila Korsuntsev, Maria Bulanova
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Pavel Mikheyev, Soslan Kulaev, Kristina Shapran
Soloist: Tsvetana Omeltchuk (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
In the early hours of today, at the age of ninety-two, the great Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin passed away. The world has lost not only one of the foremost creative figures of our age, but an artist whose voice has become part of the very fabric of modern music
On 25 and 26 July the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the premiere of a new production of Sorochintsy Fair, the final opera by Modest Musorgsky. This staging will mark the closing premiere of the Mariinsky Theatre’s 242nd season. The production is directed and choreographed by Ilya Ustyantsev, with set design by Yekaterina Malinina, costume technology by Maria Sedykh, and lighting by Vadim Brodsky. Its musical director is Valery Gergiev
Every year the Music Festival Stars of the White Nights brings together the leading lights of the international opera stage – brilliant artists whose names have long become synonymous with artistry and excellence. This July, audiences can look forward to an exceptional constellation of world-renowned performers. Featured in opera productions at the Mariinsky Theatre will be Ambrogio Maestri, Albina Shagimuratova, Hibla Gerzmava, Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Olga Borodina, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Skorokhodov, Alexey Markov, Dmitry Korchak, Tatiana Serjan and Irina Churilova
On 26 June the awards ceremony for the II Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors took place at the Petrovsky Travel Palace in Moscow.
Soloists of the Mariinsky Orchestra, Alexey Krasheninnikov (violin) and Eduard Kiprsky (piano), were among the winners in the composition category. Krasheninnikov was awarded 2nd prize and a Silver Medal, while Kiprsky received 3rd prize and a Bronze Medal as well as the special prize for the best piano work
On 4, 5 and 6 July the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will host one of the most anticipated premieres of the XXXIII Music Festival Stars of the White Nights – Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani, adapted by the renowned Bulgarian bass and opera director Orlin Anastassov. The production team includes set and costume designer Denis Ivanov, choreographer Yulia Smirnova, chorus master Konstantin Rylov and principal répétiteur Yuri Kokko. The production is under the musical direction of Valery Gergiev