On 29 April Konstantin Zverev will be performing the role of the Nutcracker Prince in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker with choreography by Vasily Vainonen for the first time
In accordance with a resolution by the Expert Council of the Moscow State University, on 26 April Valery Gergiev was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor by the University
On 27 April at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, Anastasia Kolegova will be performing the lead role in the ballet Carmen-Suite to music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin.
Two releases on the Mariinsky label – Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte and a recording of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Piano Concerti Nos 1 and 2 as well as Rodion Shchedrin’s Piano Concerto No 5 have received lavish praise in the world’s leading music publications
On 27 April Tatiana Pavlovskaya will be performing the role of Liza in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades for the first time, which will be followed by her debut as Giulietta in Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on 1 May (production by Vasily Barkhatov and Zinovy Margolin)
On 20 April prima ballerina Alina Somova will be performing the title role in Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella for the first time (choreography by Alexei Ratmansky)
From 15 April to 9 May the XI Moscow Easter Festival, directed by Valery Gergiev, will be presenting some one hundred and fifty concerts of symphony, chamber, choral and bell-ringing music in thirty-six Russian towns and cities as well as in Kiev
