There are just two days until the opening of the MARIINSKY ballet festival.
Rehearsals are going at full steam

On 28 February at 17:00 there will be a press conference dedicated to the XIII Ballet Festival MARIINSKY

On 26 February Valery Gergiev will be performing a charity concert in Helsinki in aid of the project A Clean Baltic Sea

On 22 February, following a performance of the opera Das Rheingold at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev will be holding an autograph session. The public will have a unique opportunity to get the maestro’s autograph on the Mariinsky label’s most recent release – a recording of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre

Respected French publications Diapason and Télérama shower praise on a recording of Die Walküre

Norman Lebrecht has stated that the Mariinsky label’s recording “is as gripping as any Wagner recording of recent times.”

On 18 February Anna Markarova will be appearing as Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly for the first time (production by Mariusz Treliński)

From 14–16 February the Mariinsky Opera will be presenting two gala concerts and a performance of Massenet’s Don Quichotte under Valery Gergiev at the XXXI International Chaliapin Opera Festival

On 15 and 17 February the Mariinsky Theatre will be performing operas at the historic Bolshoi Theatre

The French weekly L’Express has published a review of the Mariinsky label’s latest disc