In a matinee performance of the ballet Giselle on 3 December young Mariinsky Ballet Company soloist Timur Askerov will be appearing as Count Albrecht for the first time

On 4 December at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev will be hosting a concert and meeting of young concert-goers as part of the cultural and educational project The World of Theatre and Music with Valery Gergiev

Leading French music magazine Classica has named Valery Gergiev “Artiste de l’année” while a Mariinsky label DVD has received the “Choc de l’année” award

As part of the Year of Spain and Russia the Mariinsky Ballet Company is on tour in Barcelona

On 18 November Nikolai Kamensky made his debut as the Procurator in Vasily Barkhatov and Zinovy Margolin’s production of Rodion Shchedrin’s opera Dead Souls

On 22 November Mariinsky Opera Company soloist Andrei Popov will be making his debut as Laca Klemeň in Leoš Janáček’s opera Jenůfa

Nominees for Russia’s 2010-2011 Golden Mask theatre awards have been announced: there are twenty-three nominees from the Mariinsky Theatre in nine categories.

Maestro Valery Gergiev has won the 2011 international Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award

On 17 November at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Natalia Evstafieva and Vladislav Sulimsky will be making their debuts in Aida.

The Mariinsky label is pleased to announce the release of a new disc featuring piano concerti by Dmitry Shostakovich and Rodion Shchedrin.