On 3 January Maria Kochetkova will be appearing as Giselle, while on 8 January she will perform the role of Masha in the ballet The Nutcracker

For one week the Mariinsky Ballet will be performing at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden

The Sleeping Beauty and eight female debuts.

On 11 December tenor Dmitry Voropaev will be performing the role of Don Antonio in Sergei Prokofiev’s opera Betrothal in a Monastery for the first time

On 9 December Ilya Kuznetsov will be making his debut as Spartacus

Nominees for the Grammy awards have been announced

The prize-winners of St Petersburg’s Golden Sofit theatre prize have been announced

Several debuts to come in Raymonda on 5 and 6 December