On 2 February Kimin Kim will be making his debut as Albrecht in the ballet Giselle

From 28 January to 2 February the Mariinsky Ballet will present seven performances of Swan Lake at the Kennedy Center in Washington together with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

In the matinee performance on 26 January Alexei Timofeyev will be making his debut as Count Albrecht and Yekaterina Chebykina will be appearing in the role of Myrtha for the first time while in the evening performance Yaroslav Baibordin will dance the Classical Duet in Act I

On 23 January mezzo-soprano Regina Rustamova will be making her debut as Konchakovna, while tenor Dmitry Voropaev will be performing the role of Vladimir Igorevich in Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor for the first time

On 25 and 26 January the Mariinsky Theatre will be appearing at Moscow’s Golden Mask festival

On 22 January soprano Eleonora Vindau will be performing the role of Countess Rosina in Mozart’s opera Le nozze di Figaro for the first time on the historic stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (production by Yuri Alexandrov)

The Mariinsky’s recording of Prokofiev’s The Gambler has won in the category “DVD Performance”

Valery Gergiev and all at the Mariinsky Theatre express our sincere condolences to Claudio Abbado’s friends, family, pupils and the entire music world

Die Walküre has been named “Disc of the Year”, while Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto has been named “Choice of the Week” by western media

Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, The Gambler and Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony have been nominated for the International Classical Music Awards