On 1 and 2 February at the Mariinsky II the Astana Opera will be presenting Maurice Jarre's ballet Notre Dame de Paris with choreography by Roland Petit

From 31 January to 5 February the Mariinsky Ballet will be on its annual tour to Washington (USA). The programme of the fifteenth visit by the St Petersburg company to the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts includes Rodion Shchedrin's ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

On 25 January at 19:00 at the historic Mariinsky Theatre there will be a Grand Concert marking Chinese New Year

From 21 to 29 January Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing on tour in cities in Spain, and on 30 and 31 January they will be in Budapest (Hungary) and Belbrade (Serbia)

On 18 January at the Prokofiev Hall (Mariinsky-II) soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers directed by Larisa Gergieva will present the premiere of Leonid Klinichev's one-act opera Zinaida, which is dedicated to Zinaida Gippius. This work concludes the composer's triptych about great Russian poets. Stage director Alexei Stepanyuk has been working on the production

The Mariinsky Theatre will pay its respects to opera company bass-baritone soloist Edward Tsanga with a concert dedication. Upcoming opera performances will also be dedicated to the memory of Edward Tsanga – performances in which he was due to take part

The Mariinsky Theatre is saddened to announce the unexpected death on 14 January at the age of thirty-eight of bass-baritone Edward Nikolaevich Tsanga, Mariinsky Opera soloist and Honoured Artist of the Republic of Komi. On 18 January we bid farewell to the performer

On 13 January at the Concert Hall soloists of the Mariinsky Opera and the Academy of Young Opera Singers will present Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles (in concert).

The first concert series of the new year by the Münchner Philharmoniker under Valery Gergiev will take place in Munich and Dortmund from 11 to 15 January