Featuring Alexander Mikhailov, Antonina Vesenina, Irina Shishkova, Yegor Chubakov, Nikolai Kamensky, Stanislav Trofimov
Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Anastasia Kalagina, Denis Begansky, Gevorg Grigoryan, Bakuri Kalichava, Miroslav Molchanov, Yuri Vlasov, Andrei Zorin
Piano: Alexander Rubinov
The Mariinsky Chorus
cantata by Carl Orff
Soloists: Anastasia Kalagina, Andrei Popov, Vladislav Sulimsky
The Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov
Soloists: Alexander Poltoratsky (violin), Vasily Stepanov (cello)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Andrey Kolyasnikov
Featuring Tatiana Serjan, Ekaterina Lukash, Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Roman Burdenko, Mikhail Petrenko, Gennady Bezzubenkov
Featuring Elena Karpesh, Anna Kiknadze, Antonina Vesenina, Oxana Shilova, Dmitry Voropaev, Denis Zakirov, Maharram Huseynov, Nikolai Kamensky, Ilya Bannik, Vladimir Moroz
Featuring Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Irina Shishkova, Dmitry Shabetya, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Maharram Huseynov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Irina Churilova, Anna Kiknadze, Akhmed Agadi, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Gleb Peryazev, Vladimir Feliauer
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Inara Kozlovskaya, Zinaida Tsarenko, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Yuri Vorobiev, Miroslav Molchanov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Students of Russian and European music institutions
Featuring Yekaterina Savinkova, Gleb Peryazev, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Pavel Shmulevich, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Oleg Videman, Anton Khalansky, Mikhail Kit
Featuring Aigul Khismatullina, Mikhail Petrenko, Yekaterina Krapivina, Yuri Vlasov, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Yevgeny Akimov, Gennady Bezzubenkov
Soloists: Marina Kirushina, Maria Uvarova, Egor Semenkov, Alexander Shashkin, Alexei Krotov, Alexander Nazemtsev, Alexander Bashkatov
Olga Kotlyarova (organ)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov
Anna Shoka (violin), Yekaterina Skurtu (violin), Yekaterina Zaplakhova (cello), Alexander Vasiliev (clarinet), Trofim Konvisarov (piano)
Featuring Yevgeny Chernyadiev, Anna Denisova, Alexander Gontsa, Stanislav Leontiev, Dmitry Koleushko
Performed in Russian
Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Anastasia Lukina, Kimin Kim, Even Capitaine
Soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Mikhail Pavlov, Yekaterina Goncharova, Boris Stepanov, Svetlana Karpova, Vladimir Vaneyev
Soloist: Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp
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
On 9 and 10 June the Mariinsky Ballet Company will tour the Armenian capital of Yerevan. The performances will take place on an open-air stage in Tumanyan Park. On the first evening the programme will feature one-act ballets by Michel Fokine; on the second evening audiences will enjoy a ballet divertissement drawn from masterpieces of the world repertoire. The tour will feature stars of the St Petersburg ballet stage alongside rising young artists. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Arseny Shuplyakov
In June and July the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will embark on a major series of reciprocal tours in St Petersburg and Moscow. First, however, on 9, 10 and 11 June the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will perform at the Zaryadye Moscow Concert Hall. In this anniversary year celebrating the 185th anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s birth, the orchestra and maestro will present a lavish programme devoted to the composer’s works. Across three evenings the complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s numbered symphonies will be performed
Each year the Music Festival Stars of the White Nights brings audiences unforgettable appearances by world-renowned artists. Among this June’s special guests will be the brilliant Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto. This season he has prepared a very special gift for St Petersburg audiences: on 15 June the singer will give a solo recital, and on 17 June he will return to the Historic Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre to perform the title role in Massenet’s Don Quichotte


