The Mariinsky in Taiwan and China
From 30 November to 4 December the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will be performing a series of concerts of Russian music at major venues in Taiwan and China
The Australian press has named Valery Gergiev the world’s number-one conductor

The concerts of Russian music in Australia conducted by Valery Gergiev with Denis Matsuev and the London Symphony Orchestra have won tremendous praise from audiences

A December premiere
On 25, 26 and 27 December 2014 the Mariinsky-II will be hosting the premiere performances of a new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel. In over a hundred years this is just the third production at the Petrograd-Leningrad-St Petersburg Theatre
Yevgeny Shcherbakov has died
We are sad to announce the death of former ballet company soloist (1959-1982) Yevgeny Vasilievich Shcherbakov on 23 November at the age of seventy-four following a serious illness
Alla Sizova has died
We are deeply saddened to relate that Alla Ivanovna Sizova, a brilliant Kirov Theatre ballerina and People’s Artist of the  USSR, has died at the  age of seventy-five
On the eve of the International Piano Festival

An interview with Professor Sergei Osipenko of the Rostov-on-Don State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire

“А touch of heaven had come to rest in the Birmingham Hippodrome”
The British press on the performance of the Mariinsky Der Ring des Nibelungen
Concerts of Russian music in Singapore and Australia

Valery Gergiev will be conducting the London Symphony Orchestra as part of a marathon series of concert programmes exclusively featuring classical Russian music of the 20th century

Nominations for the Golden Mask
Nominations for the 2013-2014 season’s Golden Mask, Russia’s most prestigious theatre award, have been announced. Mariinsky Theatre productions and performers have been nominated in six categories
Golden Sofits for the Mariinsky
The Mariinsky Theatre, its productions and performers have been awarded the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, in several categories