On 6 January Alexei Popov will make his debut as Ivan the Fool in the ballet Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse)

On 28 December Yekaterina Chebykina will be making her debut as Khudyshka in the ballet Cinderella

We congratulate ballet soloist Andrei Yermakov on winning the Spirit of Dance prize in the category Rising Star

On 23 December the Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic

From 21 to 27 December the  Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will be on their traditional major pre-New Year tour to Baden-Baden in Germany

Maestro Gergiev and Mariinsky Theatre soloists will be presenting a series of concerts of music by Stravinsky with the Münchner Philharmoniker

17 and 18 December will see debuts by Kimin Kim, Andrei Arseniev, Ivan Sitnikov, David Zaleyev, Soslan Kulaev, Olga Belik, Alina Krasovskaya and Galina Rusina in Leonid Lavrovsky’s famed ballet

This concert will be the final performance by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in Moscow in 2013

On 17 and 18 December at the Latvian National Opera the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will be presenting Angelin Preljocaj’s ballet Le Parc

In the matinee performance on 15 December the lead female role of Syuimbike will be performed by Anastasia Matvienko for the first time with Trofim Malanov making his debut as Shurale in the same performance. Rafael Musin (14 December) and Nail Khairnasov (15 December, 19:00) will be appearing as the Evil Spirit and Olga Belik will perform as the Fiery Witch (14 December)