In honour of Natalia Spitsyna
La Bayadère on 30 April will be danced in honour of Natalia Spitsyna, Honoured Artist of Russia.
Of the fifty years she has dedicated to her home theatre, she has been a teacher and coach for more than twenty-five, jealously guarding the style and performing traditions of the Leningrad school of dance in Mariinsky Theatre productions
In memory of Askold Makarov
On 3 May the performance of the ballet Shurale will be dedicated to the memory of Askold Makarov, People's Artist of the USSR
The theatre during the war years: 70 images from history

To mark the anniversary of victory in WW II the Mariinsky Theatre website is exhibiting photographs and playbills from the Mariinsky Theatre Archive, performers’ family albums and the collection of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of St Petersburg

Valery Gergiev is an Honorary Doctor of the Tomsk State University

On 21 April following a matinee charity concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra in Tomsk as part of the Moscow Easter Festival maestro Gergiev was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Tomsk State University

Important events at the XIV Moscow Easter Festival

Barry Douglas, Valery Gergiev and musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra performed in Votkinsk, Tchaikovsky’s home town

Timur Askerov and Kimin Kim – Principal Dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet
Following the conclusion of the XV International Ballet Festival Mariinsky a new energy can be felt within the ballet company
The XIV Moscow Easter Festival
12 April – 9 May 2015

On 12 April Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra with Denis Matsuev and Olga Borodina at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire for the opening of the XIV Moscow Easter Festival

The exhibition Twenty
To mark twenty years of her creative career the internationally acclaimed ballerina Diana Vishneva is having a photo exhibition at the Mariinsky Theatre entitled Twenty, organised together with the Tatyana Parfionova Fashion House which is also twenty-years-old
A new release on the Mariinsky label is available to order!

On 4 May the Mariinsky recording label releases its latest – indeed the sixth – disc in the series Gergiev’s Shostakovich

The Mariinsky International Piano Festival
The Mariinsky Theatre is running the MariinskyInternational Piano Festival for the ninth time. From 6 – 12 April at the Concert Hall and chamber venues of the Mariinsky-II there will be fourteen concert programmes featuring sixteen pianists