Featuring Maria Bayankina, Natalia Yevstafieva, Dmitry Golovnin, Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Gleb Peryazev, Miroslav Molchanov
Featuring Irina Churilova, Yulia Matochkina, Akhmed Agadi, Roman Burdenko, Yuri Vorobiev, Vladimir Feliauer
Soloists: Sandra Shinder, Irina Danilova (violin)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Maxim Zyuzin, Roman Belyakov, Alexei Timofeyev, Aaron Osawa-Horowitz
Featuring Alexandra Khiteeva, Alexander Sergeev, Konstantin Zverev, Nikita Kopunov, Maxim Izmestiev
Featuring Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Irina Shishkova, Mikhail Vekua, Vadim Kravets, Gevorg Grigoryan, Ilya Bannik
Featuring Inara Kozlovskaya, Natalia Yevstafieva, Dmitry Golovnin, Pavel Yankovsky, Yevgeny Nikitin, Gennady Bezzubenkov
Featuring Tatiana Serjan, Zinaida Tsarenko, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Roman Burdenko, Yuri Vorobiev, Miroslav Molchanov
Narrator: Polina Malikova (Tolstun)
Soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Gurgen Petrosyan
Piano: Natalia Sidorenko
Programme: Brahms, Musorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Massenet, Verdi
Narrator: Yevgeny Mironov
Soloists: Yekaterina Sergeyeva (mezzo-soprano), Suren Bagratuni (cello)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Marina Shakhdinarova, Roman Shirokikh, Angelina Akhmedova, Vladislav Kupriyanov
Featuring Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov, Irina Churilova, Roman Burdenko, Alexander Trofimov, Yuri Vorobiev, Zinaida Tsarenko
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Yekaterina Savinkova, Kirill Belov, Alexander Gontsa, Yuri Vlasov, Edem Umerov
Featuring Gelena Gaskarova, Roman Arndt, Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Mikhail Kolelishvili, Alexander Morozov
Featuring Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Kiknadze, Andrei Serov, Kira Loginova, Evelina Agabalaeva, Nikolai Yemtsov, Alexander Trofimov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Elena Yevseyeva, Alexandra Khiteeva, Alexander Sergeev, Yevgeny Konovalov, Roman Malyshev, Yaroslav Baibordin, Valeria Kuznetsova, Elena Lyskova, Anna Smirnova, Danil Zinoviev
Featuring Alexander Mikhailov, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Yevgeny Nikitin, Mikhail Petrenko, Alexander Timchenko
Narrator: Vladimir Steklov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Renata Shakirova, Roman Belyakov
Featuring Oxana Skorik, Nikita Korneyev, Maria Shirinkina, Alexander Sergeev
Featuring Natalya Levchuk, Akhmed Agadi, Yekaterina Goncharova
Conductor: Haoran Li
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
Today, on 22 May, the Mariinsky Theatre opens the XXXIII Music Festival Stars of the White Nights with a grand celebration. Year after year the festival draws the attention of audiences from around the world who cherish musical and theatrical art. Stars of the White Nights remains one of the most prominent and anticipated cultural events of the Mariinsky Theatre – the culmination of its entire season. This year’s festival runs from 22 May to 3 August, with events scheduled across all of the theatre’s St Petersburg stages
The Mariinsky Theatre mourns the passing of the legendary choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, who died today at the age of 98. With his departure, an entire era in the history of ballet draws to a close. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues at this time of profound sorrow