On 29 September bass Vladimir Felyauer will be performing the role of Wotan in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried at the theatre for the first time

From 2 to 21 October the Mariinsky Ballet Company will be performing in California and Washington

On 25 September under the baton of Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and pianist Denis Matsuev will present Dmitry Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony and Piano Concerto No 1 at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire

On 26 September tenor Andrei Zorin will be performing the role of Mime in Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold at the theatre for the first time

On 23 September Mariinsky Opera Company soloist Yekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano) will perform the role of Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida staged by Alexei Stepanyuk

On 20 September Mariinsky Theatre prima-ballerina Yekaterina Kondaurova will be performing in Benjamin Millepied’s ballet Without for the first time

Russia’s Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky attended a performance of Musorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina conducted by Valery Gergiev at the opening of the season at the Mariinsky Theatre

Following the one and only concert by the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra in Kemerovo, Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev awarded Valery Gergiev the Order of Honour of Kuzbass

Valery Gergiev and Nikolai Merkushkin, Governor of the Samara Region, have signed an agreement on long-term collaboration

On 18 September the Mariinsky Theatre opens its ballet season with a performance of Raymonda marking one hundred years since the birth of Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya