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 165^th 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 165^th 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