A recording of Dmitry Shostakovich’s First and Second Piano Concerti as well as Rodion Shchedrin’s Fifth Piano Concerto on the Mariinsky label has been nominated for a prestigious International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in the “Concerto” category

A recording of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony will be released on 3 December. This will be the eighteenth disc to be released by the Mariinsky label

On 25 November Yannis Kokkos met soloists of the Opera Company at which the Stage Director of Don Quichotte provided an insight into Massenet’s opera in addition to presenting a model of the sets and sketches for the costumes in the production

On 22 November tenor Sergei Semishkur will be performing the role of Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La traviata for the first time

On 18 November Vadim Belyaev will be making his debut as Gurn in the ballet La Sylphide

The Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour of Asia under the baton of Valery Gergiev continues with performances in China on 19 and 20 November. Works by Sergei Prokofiev will be the focal point of the concert programme

The nominees for Russia’s Golden Mask awards have been announced. The Mariinsky Theatre has received seven nominations

From 15 November to 2 December the Mariinsky Ballet will be performing in Japan. In four cities there will be thirteen performances with the tour programme including the ballets Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Anna Karenina as well as a gala concert

Valery Gergiev has spoken about the development prospects for the Mariinsky Theatre at a press conference in Tokyo

From 11 to 13 November the Mariinsky Ballet staged three performances of Swan Lake in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts