On 30 August Valery Gergiev will be conducting this famous British ensemble at the final concert of the annual Edinburgh International Festival of music and the dramatic arts (Great Britain)

On 28 August the catalogue of the Mariinsky Theatre’s recording label sees a new addition

The Mariinsky Theatre prima ballerina has been awarded this prestigious title by the respected German publication for the best debut last season

On 25 and 26 August Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival

On 24 August at the BBC Proms, soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers and the London Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen will present the British premiere of a concert version of Dmitry Shostakovich’s uncompleted opera Orango

The recently concluded 232nd season was held under the aegis of Tchaikovsky. The first on-line broadcast of the coming 233rd season will be a performance by Dmitry Masleyev, the winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. In the future, mariinsky.tv plans to broadcast concerts as part of a marathon featuring all of the competition’s prize-winners. Until then, patrons may visit webpages featuring previous on-line broadcasts to hear young musicians and established maestri performing Tchaikovsky’s music once again

Dear patrons, please take note of the special working hours of box-offices from 3 August to 15 September 2015. While the season is closed the box-offices continue ticket-sales in the summer regime

On 2 August The Nutcracker at the historic Mariinsky Theatre and Eugene Onegin at the Mariinsky-II brought the season to a close. The new 2015-2016 season opens on 25 September at all three venues.
The main events of the 232nd season may be seen in the final press for this season

From 1 to 4 August maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in a programme including Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and the  overture from Rossini’s opera Guillaume Tell in major cities throughout Japan