From 14 to 25 January the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting its productions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York
On 8 January the world marks one hundred and five years since the birth of Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova. Galina Ulanova last appeared on-stage as a dancer in 1960, but even to day her name remains a symbol of the art of ballet, the embodiment of its most beautiful and human essence
On 27 December Xander Parish will be making his debut in the lead male role in the ballet Marguerite and Armand

On 25, 26 and 27 December at the Mariinsky-II there will be a premiere of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel by stage director Anna Matison. On 25 and 26 December Valery Gergiev will be conducting

An interview with Anna Matison, Stage Director and Production Designer of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel

From 21 to 27 December the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will undertake its traditional pre-New Year tour to Baden-Baden (Germany)

Following the Sergei Prokofiev Music Festival which took place in Rome from 10 to 15 December, Valery Gergiev departed for The Netherlands, where once again he will be conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
In the lead up to Christmas and New Year there will be a premiere of a new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy-tale opera Christmas Eve at the historic Mariinsky Theatre; previously, it was performed at the Concert Hall

From 13 to 16 December the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting ballets at the Tianjin Grand Theatre (Northern China)

From 10 to 15 December the Italian capital will be hosting a major festival of music by Sergei Prokofiev, organised by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and maestro Gergiev, an untiring promoter of Prokofiev’s musical legacy