Featuring Maxim Izmestiev, Elena Yevseyeva, Nikita Zakharov
Soloists: Sergey Davydchenko (piano), Pavel Milyukov (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Soloists: Martina Frezzotti (piano), Nazia Amineva (soprano), Yelizaveta Mikhailova (mezzo-soprano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
Programme: Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Strauss, Anderson, Haydn
Featuring Yaroslav Petryanik, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Gevorg Grigoryan, Yekaterina Goncharova, Daria Rositskaya, Kristina Gontsa, Nikolai Kamensky, Alexander Timchenko, Stepan Zavalishin
Piano: Yevgenia Isupova
Soloists: Valentin Malinin (piano), Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Maria Bayankina, Anna Kiknadze, Olga Pudova, Anastasia Kalagina, Dmitry Voropaev, Klim Tikhonov, Vadim Kravets, Nikolai Kamensky, Ilya Bannik, Vladimir Moroz
Hibla Gerzmava, Olga Borodina, Irina Churilova, Yekaterina Goncharova, Anna Denisova, Svetlana Karpova, Evgenia Muravieva, Tatiana Serjan, Darya Tereshchenko, Yuri Vorobiev, Maxim Daminov, Alexander Mikhailov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Gleb Peryazev, Sergei Skorokhodov, Boris Stepanov, Alexander Trofimov, Roman Shirokikh, Vyacheslav Vasilyev,
Viktoria Tereshkina, Kristina Shapran, Elena Bazhenova, Olga Belik, Yevgenia Savkina, Roman Belyakov, Alexander Sergeev, Soslan Kulaev, Aaron Osawa-Horowitz and the Mariinsky Ballet artists
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Opera soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre named after Alisher Navoi
Honoured State Choir of the Republic of Uzbekistan
National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Conductor: Alibek Kabdurakhmanov
Featuring Mikhail Vekua, Irina Churilova, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Stanislav Leontiev, Sergei Romanov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine, Yevgeny Deryabin
Featuring Albina Shagimuratova, Sergei Skorokhodov, Alexey Markov, Stanislav Trofimov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Andrei Serov, Ilya Selivanov, Irina Shishkova, Elena Karpesh
Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Yevgeny Konovalov, Alexander Sergeev
Featuring Oxana Skorik, Timur Askerov, Konstantin Zverev
ballet set to music by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy
Featuring Denis Rodkin, Daniil Potaptsev, Eleonora Sevenard, Semyon Chudin, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Denis Savin, Anastasiya Meskova
Featuring Anatoly Mikhailov, Yekaterina Latysheva, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Irina Shishkova, Ilya Bannik
Featuring Grigory Chernetsov, Anzhelika Minasova, Roman Shirokikh, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Miroslav Molchanov
Featuring Askar Abdrazakov, Anzhelika Minasova, Mikhail Vekua, Anastasia Kalagina, Olga Baranenko, Natalia Chasovitina, Lydia Bobokhina
Featuring Denis Begansky, Maria Bayankina, Sergei Semishkur, Olga Pudova, Varvara Solovyova, Tatiana Kravtsova, Elena Vitman
Featuring Maria Bulanova, Elena Svinko, Ruslan Stenyushkin, Kian Manghise
Featuring Maria Khoreva, Maria Shirinkina, Roman Belyakov, Alexei Orohovsky
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


