On 31 December at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev will introduce St Petersburg audiences to members of the acclaimed Ioudenitch family – Stanislav, Edward and Maria
From 1 January 2016 the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vladivostok will acquire the status of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. For the January playbill and to acquire tickets please go to the website www.prim.mariinsky.ru and theatre box-offices

On 29 December the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will be performing at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The concert begins at 20:00

On 30 December at the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be the first ballet premiere of the season – Symphony in Three Movements to music by Stravinsky with choreography by Radu Poklitaru

On 26 December at the Mariinsky-II there will be a world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s opera-féerie A Christmas Tale

Due to the increase in the number of performances and concerts at the historic Mariinsky Theatre, the main stage and chamber venues of the Mariinsky-II and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, patrons may claim any items left in the cloakrooms without queuing on presentation of a ticket for a performance or concert taking place the same day at a different theatre venue

On 27 December a concert at the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will pay tribute to Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya. The same day, the Shchedrin Hall chamber venue of the Mariinsky-II will see the start of a series of film screenings in memory of the ballerina

An interview with Mikhail Voskresensky. The professor and his students will be appearing at the X International Piano Festival

One of the key events of the anniversary International Piano Festival will be an evening of preludes and fugues by Vsevolod Zaderatsky on 23 December at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre

On 22 December the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (Mariinsky-II) will see the opening of the X International Piano Festival