The theatre’s staff are speaking of their hopes, expectations and ideas on the eve of the opening of the new Mariinsky Theatre building (the Mariinsky II). Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva is the first to share her views

The authoritative American magazine Audiophile Audition has awarded the Mariinsky label’s recording of Die Walküre five stars – the highest possible ranking available to new releases

23 March will see debuts in opera The Maid of Pskov by soprano Yekaterina Goncharova as Princess Olga Yurievna Tokmakova and three bass singers – Alexander Morozov as Tsar Ivan Vasilievich the Terrible, Fyodor Kuznetsov as the oprichnik Prince Afanasy Vyazemsky and Oleg Sychov as Bomelius, a foreign physician

On 20 March Yekaterina Shimanovich will be appearing as Amelia in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un ballo in maschera for the first time (Stage Director: Andrei Konchalovsky)

The State Academic Mariinsky Theatre is running auditions for vacant positions in the Ballet Company.
The auditions take place on 29 March 2013

At the press conference for the Moscow Easter Festival Valery Gergiev revealed some secrets about the opening of the new building of the Mariinsky Theatre

On 14 March at 12:00 in the White Hall of Moscow City Hall there will be a press conference dedicated to the XII Moscow Easter Festival

Vasily Gerello, a leading Mariinsky Theatre soloist and People’s Artist of Russia, turned fifty years of age on 13 March 2013

On 12 March, the title role in the ballet The Firebird will be performed by Daria Pavlenko opposite Yuri Smekalov as Ivan Tsarevich for the first time

The major French music magazine Opera has awarded the first release of Wagner’s tetralogy on the Mariinsky label Le Diamant d’Opéra (“diamond of opera”)