Featuring Vadim Kravets, Kira Loginova, Yekaterina Solovyova, Sergei Romanov, Elena Gorlo, Irma Gigolaty, Pavel Shmulevich
Daniel Kogan (violin), Andrei Usov (viola), Boris Andrianov (cello)
Soloist: Ivan Sendetskiy (cello)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Bogdan Yefremov (cello), Vazgen Yusupov (clarinet), Alexei Lobikov (trombone)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Andrey Kolyasnikov
Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers
Featuring Maharram Huseynov, Yulia Suleimanova, Valeria Lebedieva, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Zlata Bulycheva, Kirill Belov, Vladimir Moroz
Featuring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Akhmed Agadi, Daria Riabokon, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Elena Vitman
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
On 11 September the Festival of Chinese Culture will open in St Petersburg at the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre and will continue on 15 September in Moscow at the Main Stage of the Maly Theatre
On 3 September at 14:00 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre soloists of the opera company together with the Mariinsky Chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will dedicate a concert to the memory of the great Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who passed away on 29 August