“The Mariinsky Orchestra beat Hurricane Sandy” – this was how New York Public Radio critic Brian Wise described the tour by the St Petersburg musicians

The concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall on 31 October has been cancelled because of Hurricane Sandy

On 28 October the young dancer Keenan Kampa will be making her debut as the Queen of the Dryads in the ballet Don Quixote, while on 29 October she will be performing the role of Myrtha in Giselle

From 16 to 21 October, the Mariinsky Ballet gave seven performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky at the Kennedy Center in Washington

On 25, 26 and 27 October eleven debuts are to take place in George Balanchine’s ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream

From 26 to 31 October the Mariinsky Orchestra and Stradivarius Ensemble will be on tour in the USA and Canada

On 24 October soprano Elena Zheleznyakova will be performing the role of Xenia for the first time opposite Sergei Skorokhodov as Grigory Otrepiev

Between 10 and 14 October 2012 the Mariinsky Ballet gave six performances of Swan Lake at the Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley during its major American tour

On 21 October baritone Alexander Nikitin will be appearing as Amonasro in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre for the first time

On 14 October at 18:00 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev and Natalia Komarova, Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region, will be presenting the results of the unique cultural project The Year of the Mariinsky Theatre in Yugra and revealing plans for future co-operation between the theatre and the region