On 31 January Mariinsky Theatre Principal Dancer Vladimir Shklyarov will be making his debut as the Hooligan in the ballet The Young Lady and the Hooligan

On 30 January at 12:00 Acting Director of the Mariinsky Ballet Yuri Fateyev will be a guest on the Mariinsky FM internet radio station

On 27 January Oxana Skorik will be making her debut as Masha in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker (choreography by Vasily Vainonen)

On 26 January Olesya Novikova will be making her debut in Angelin Preljocaj’s ballet Le Parc

24 January will see debuts in Igor Stravinsky’s opera Le Rossignol: soprano Irina Vasilieva will be performing the role of the Cook for the first time and mezzo-soprano Olga Savova will be appearing as Death

 

24 January will see debuts by Ivan Sitnikov, Soslan Kulaev, Fyodor Lopukhov, Anastasia Asaben and Ilya Petrov in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Les Noces

On 22 January Michel Fokine’s one-act ballets will see debuts by Alexander Beloborodov as Eusebius in Le Carnaval and Alisa Sodoleva as Zobeide in Schéhérazade

Valery Gergiev compares the Mariinsky Orchestra with FC Barcelona

23 January will see two debuts in Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex: mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk will be performing the role of Jocasta and tenor Dmitry Voropaev the role of Oedipus

The European press about the Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour