The XXIII Stars of the White Nights festival will be held a premiere of the new production of the opera La traviata mounted by Claudia Solti and designed by Isabella Bywater (17, 18, 21 June and 27, 28 July)

On 27 May a premiere of The Queen of Spades opens the XXIII Stars of the White Nights festival, to be held under the aegis of Tchaikovsky marking one hundred and seventy-five years since the great Russian composer’s birth.

On Sunday 17 May on one of the British capital’s central squares there will be a grandiose open-air concert of works by Dmitry Shostakovich. This concert forms the culmination of a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Shostakovich performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under maestro Gergiev

The German company ArtHaus Musik has released a recording of all of Shostakovich’s symphonies and instrumental concerti featuring the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. The recording features videos of eight concerts that took place at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in the 2013–2014 season

On 14 May 2015 Varvara Nepomnyashchaya will make her first recital appearance at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre

The dazzling star of Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya, who for several generations of audiences throughout the world embodied the very essence of ballet, its refined beauty and majesty will now shine down from Heaven...