Due to the expansion of the ballet company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (Vladivostok) there will be auditions for dancers in every category. Auditions will take place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg on 29 April

From 31 March to 5 April Valery Gergiev will present the next series of concerts with the Münchner Philharmoniker at the Gasteig (Munich, Germany)

In 2016 the Mariinsky Theatre will be widely celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Prokofiev. On 23 April – the day of the composer’s birth – the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will give a matinee performance in Moscow and an evening performance in St Petersburg

The death of Gegam Grigorian is an irreplaceable loss not just for us, for Armenia and Russia, but for many, many fans of opera throughout the world

On 31 March the XVI International MARIINSKY ballet festival opens with a premiere of the ballet The Bronze Horseman. Production choreographer Yuri Smekalov speaks about the new ballet

On 24 March at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre soloists of the Academy of Young Singers and the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will present a concert performance of Rodion Shchedrin’s opera Not Love Alone

On the eve of the anniversary XV Moscow Easter Festival, from 6 to 11 April Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing in Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Kemerovo and Moscow

On 18 March the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the concert Sounds of Change which will sum up the results of the eponymous joint project of the Mariinsky Theatre and the German competition TONALi

On 19 and 26 March at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be further performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf. The role of the Narrator will be performed by Konstantin Khabensky and Veniamin Smekhov

Valery Gergiev has completed a major tour of North and South America with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker