On 1 and 2 March the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus will be performing two concerts – one in Odense and a second in Copenhagen

At the opening of the VIII Maslenitsa festival (Shrovetide) Anastasia Kolegova and Ilya Kuznetsov will make their debuts as the Tsar Maiden and the Tsar in Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse to music by Rodion Shchedrin

On 24 and 25 February as part of the Golden Mask festival there will be performances of Rodion Shchedrin’s opera Dead Souls (production by Vasily Barkhatov and Zinovy Margolin)

On 23 February Khachatur Badalian will be performing the role of Hoffmann in Jacques Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann for the first time

On 26 February at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire there will be a concert by the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, soloists of the Opera Company and the Chorus under the baton of Valery Gergiev

The management of the Mariinsky Theatre would like audiences to note that performances due to take place on 8 and 10 April have been postponed

On 24 February at 12:00 in the White Hall of the Moscow Mayor’s Office there will be a press conference dedicated to the XI Moscow Easter Festival

On 14 February Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre will be appearing at the Chaliapin Festival in Kazan

On 12 and 13 February the Mariinsky Theatre and Valery Gergiev will be on tour in Khanty-Mansiysk