On 11 September 2017 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre a concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev marks the opening of the 2017-18 season. The programme includes works by Alexander Mosolova and Anton Bruckner

Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra are commencing a significant tour to cities throughout Europe, during which they will visit six major music festivals

On 20 August the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre concluded its first tour to St Petersburg. At the historic Mariinsky Theatre the Far East company presented the one-act ballets The Firebird with choreography by Eldar Aliev and George Balanchine's Apollo as well as the ballet Giselle with choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa

13 August saw the grand closing ceremony of the II International Far East Festival Mariinsky

From 15 to 20 August the Mariinsky Theatre (historic stage) will be hosting a tour by the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (Vladivostok) for the first time

The Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra are concluding their tour to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London (Great Britain), which runs from 24 July to 12 August

On 30 July Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin at the Mariinsky Theatre concluded the 2016-17 season which ran for forty-three weeks