Playbill for May 2026

1
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Featuring Denis Begansky, Anzhelika Minasova, Mikhail Vekua, Olga Pudova, Olga Baranenko, Natalia Chasovitina, Lydia Bobokhina

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
12:00
Performance by the Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe of China

Mariinsky II
18:00
Performance by the Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe of China

Concert Hall
19:00
Marking 240 years since the world premiere
Marking 270 years since the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2
May
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Timur Askerov, Roman Belyakov

Concert Hall
13:00
3
May
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Minchul Jeon, Alexander Sergeev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Olesya Novikova, Even Capitaine, Yevgeny Deryabin

Mariinsky II
13:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Featuring Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Gleb Peryazev, Roman Arndt, Lana Kos

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
12:00

Narrator: Oleg Senchenko
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Anton Gakkel

Concert Hall
19:00

The Admiralty Orchestra of the Leningrad Naval Base
Conductor: Nikita Ignatov
Narrator: Alexei Yemelyanov

4
May
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Nikita Korneyev, Konstantin Zverev

Mariinsky II
19:00
Marking the birthday of Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Concert Hall
19:00
Leningrad musical spring – 2026

Soloists: Denis Bystrov (oboe), Nikolai Mazhara (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Alexey Morgunov

5
May
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
6
May
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists: Boris Nikonov (marimba), Yelizaveta Mikhailova (mezzo-soprano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo

7
May
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
On the birthday of Pyotr Tchaikovsky
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, production by Yuri Temirkanov

Featuring Mikhail Pavlov, Yekaterina Latysheva, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Svetlana Karpova, Gennady Bezzubenkov

Mariinsky II
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Yana Peneva, Alexei Orohovsky

Concert Hall
19:00
8
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
In honour of Lev Morozov's jubilee
Mariinsky II
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Elena Yevseyeva, Ryoma Hudzeleu

Concert Hall
19:00
Commemorating the Victory Day

literary and musical performance based on the story of Boris Vasiliev
Artistic word: Dmitry Pevtsov
The State Kremlin Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Chudovsky

9
May
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Mariinsky Theatre
18:00
Commemorating the Victory Day
Mariinsky II
13:00
Commemorating the Victory Day
ballets set to music by Dmitry Shostakovich

Featuring Yekaterina Osmolkina, Maxim Izmestiev, Kristina Shapran, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky II
19:00
Commemorating the Victory Day
ballets set to music by Dmitry Shostakovich

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Kimin Kim, Valeria Kuznetsova, Roman Belyakov

Concert Hall
13:00
Commemorating the Victory Day

The Mariinsky Opera soloists and Chamber Chorus
Conductor: Arseny Shuplyakov
Programme: songs of the War Years

Concert Hall
19:00
Commemorating the Victory Day
10
May
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
Marking 270 years since the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Soloists: Anastasia Kalagina (soprano), Viktoria Yastrebova (mezzo-soprano), Dmitry Voropaev (tenor), Ilya Bannik (bass)
Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Zaurbek Gugkaev

11
May
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine

Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
12:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Diana Kazanlieva, Kirill Belov, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Ilya Bannik, Robert Minnullin

Concert Hall
20:00
12
May
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky II
18:00
Concert Hall
19:00
13
May
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Rodion Shchedrin

Age category 18+
Featuring Pelageya Kurennaya, Vladimir Moroz, Daria Rositskaya, Stanislav Leontiev

Concert Hall
19:00
14
May
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Anastasia Lukina, Alexei Timofeyev

Concert Hall
19:00

Tver Academic Regional Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Eugene Afanasiev

15
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Vlada Borodulina, Kian Manghise

Mariinsky II
19:00
16
May
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
14:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet set to music by Valery Gavrilin

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Alexander Sergeev, Konstantin Zverev, Anton Osetrov, Maxim Izmestiev

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
with prologue The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga

Featuring Irina Churilova, Daria Riabokon, Elena Vitman, Dmitry Grigoriev, Anton Perminov, Sergei Semishkur, Stanislav Trofimov, Yuri Vorobiev

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:30
19
May
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Featuring Mikhail Kolelishvili, Igor Morozov, Irina Shishkova, Yulia Suleimanova

20
May
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Farid Yarullin

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Timur Askerov, Alexander Sergeev

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, production by Alexei Stepanyuk

Featuring Grigory Chernetsov, Maria Bayankina, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Irina Shishkova, Mikhail Petrenko

Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists of the Chaliapin Musical Theatre
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo

21
May
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Farid Yarullin

Featuring Elena Yevseyeva, Alexei Timofeyev, Ramanbek Beishenaliev

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
22
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Renata Shakirova, Kimin Kim

Concert Hall
19:00
23
May
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Nikita Korneyev, Maria Bulanova

Concert Hall
13:00
Concert Hall
20:00
24
May
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Ludwig Minkus
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Yana Peneva, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky II
13:00
Marking 60 years since the premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Featuring Larisa Yudina, Yekaterina Savinkova, Dmitry Voropaev, Miroslav Molchanov, Anna Shulgina, Alexander Gontsa
Conductor: Justus Frantz

Mariinsky II
19:00
Marking 60 years since the premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre
Concert Hall
17:00
Marking the birthday of Richard Wagner
25
May
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
26
May
Tuesday
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

cantata by Carl Orff
Soloists: Anna Denisova, Klim Tikhonov, Alexei Krotov
The Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Cemi'i Can Deliorman

27
May
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
To celebration of City Day
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky staged by Yuri Temirkanov

Featuring Dmitry Golovnin, Irina Churilova, Ekaterina Lukash, Olga Borodina, Vladislav Sulimsky, Alexey Markov

Mariinsky II
19:00
To celebration of City Day
ballet by Reinhold Glière

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Alexander Sergeev, Kristina Shapran

Concert Hall
19:00
To celebration of City Day

Yekaterina Latysheva, Yekaterina Solovyova, Irina Shishkova, Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Andrei Zorin, Alexander Gerasimov, Marina Kirushina, Alexei Krotov
Sergei Kryuchkov (trumpet)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov
Programme: Shostakovich, Gavrilin, Kruglikov, Tchaikovsky, Sviridov, Rachmaninoff, Glière

The Stravinsky Hall
19:30

The Mariinsky Orchestra soloists
Programme: original works and arrangements for woodwind quintet

28
May
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Rodion Shchedrin (concert performance)

Featuring Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Violetta Lukyanenko, Stanislav Leontiev, Andrei Serov

29
May
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine

Concert Hall
19:00
Opening of the XXXIV Music Festival Stars of the White Nights
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici

The Prokofiev Hall
17:00
Marking 80 years since the birth of Svyatoslav Zagursky

Programme: original works and arrangements for cello ensemble

30
May
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Maria Bulanova, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
13:00
PREMIERE
opera by Modest Musorgsky

Featuring Yevgeny Nikitin, Alexander Mangutov, Alexander Morozov, Gamid Abdulov, Andrei Zorin, Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Yakov Strizhak
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky II
20:00
Concert Hall
16:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev
In memory of Alexander Toradze

Soloists: Daniil Tyurin (piano), Pavel Milyukov (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
18:30
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev
In memory of Alexander Toradze

Soloist: Ilya Papoyan (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

31
May
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev
In memory of Lyubov Kunakova
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Roman Belyakov

Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
17:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev

Soloist: Sergey Davydchenko (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky II
20:00
Concert Hall
13:00
Concert Hall
19:00
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

Olga Kotlyarova (organ), Elena Serova (harpsichord)
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici


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