XXXIV MUSIC FESTIVAL STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS

29 May – 24 July 2026

The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Artistic director of the festival is Valery Gergiev

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

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

1
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
20:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev

Soloists: Sergey Davydchenko (piano), Pavel Milyukov (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:30
Celebrating 10 years of the St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra

Soloists: Martina Frezzotti (piano), Nazia Amineva (soprano), Yelizaveta Mikhailova (mezzo-soprano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo

The Stravinsky Hall
13:00
Dedicated to International Children's Day

Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
Programme: Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Strauss, Anderson, Haydn

The Stravinsky Hall
18:30
On the eve of the premiere at the Mariinsky
2
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky II
19:00
Prokofiev: One of Our Own festival
Marking 135 years since the birth of Sergei Prokofiev

Soloists: Valentin Malinin (piano), Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

4
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Renata Shakirova, Kimin Kim

Mariinsky II
19:00
Performance of the Bolshoi Theatre named after Alisher Navoi (Tashkent)
opera by George Frideric Handel

Opera soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre named after Alisher Navoi
Honoured State Choir of the Republic of Uzbekistan
National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Conductor: Alibek Kabdurakhmanov

Concert Hall
19:00
Brilliant cast of Wagnerian performers
5
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Even Capitaine, Yevgeny Deryabin

Mariinsky II
19:00
Star cast of artists
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Featuring Andrei Serov, Ilya Selivanov, Irina Shishkova, Elena Karpesh

6
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Yevgeny Konovalov, Alexander Sergeev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Alexander Glazunov

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Timur Askerov, Konstantin Zverev

Mariinsky II
19:00

ballet set to music by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy
Featuring Denis Rodkin, Daniil Potaptsev, Eleonora Sevenard, Semyon Chudin, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Denis Savin, Anastasiya Meskova

Concert Hall
12:00
Concert Hall
19:00
7
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Featuring Askar Abdrazakov, Anzhelika Minasova, Mikhail Vekua, Olga Pudova, Olga Baranenko, Natalia Chasovitina, Lydia Bobokhina

Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
8
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky II
19:00
9
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Camilla Mazzi, Yaroslav Baibordin

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Featuring Lana Kos, Anna Kiknadze, Akhmed Agadi, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Vladimir Feliauer

Concert Hall
19:00

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Cemi'i Can Deliorman

10
June
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking 200 years since the birth of Ludwig Minkus
Marking 110 years since the birth of Sofia Golovkina and 140 years since the birth of Fyodor Lopukhov

284th graduation class

Mariinsky II
19:00
11
June
Thursday
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Alexander Rogozin (oboe)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp

12
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
18:00
Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
operetta by Dmitry Shostakovich (concert performance)

Featuring Denis Begansky, Maria Bakanina, Alexander Koryakov, Margarita Ivanova, Yaroslav Petryanik, Dmitry Koleushko, Albina Sharafutdinova, Pavel Shmulevich, Lyudmila Gradova, Alexander Gerasimov

13
June
Saturday
Mariinsky II
13:00
ballet by Cesare Pugni

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Yana Peneva, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini

Featuring Diana Kazanlieva, Roman Shirokikh, Valeria Lebedeva, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Maxim Daminov

The Stravinsky Hall
19:30

Performed by Ilya Papoyan (piano)

14
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Marking 200 years since the birth of Ludwig Minkus
Marking 110 years since the birth of Sofia Golovkina and 140 years since the birth of Fyodor Lopukhov

284th graduation class

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
13:00
opera by Modest Musorgsky

Featuring Denis Begansky, Mayram Sokolova, Kristina Kapitsyna, Yevgeny Nikitin, Alexander Mikhailov, Alexander Mangutov, Stepan Zavalishin, Egor Sotov

Concert Hall
19:00
15
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking 200 years since the birth of Ludwig Minkus
Marking 110 years since the birth of Sofia Golovkina and 140 years since the birth of Fyodor Lopukhov

284th graduation class

Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Alexander Kliuchko (piano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Yuri Demidovich

16
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Programme: Davide da Bergamo, Bach, Neukomm, Blair

17
June
Wednesday
Concert Hall
20:00
To the birthday of Igor Stravinsky
Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky. The Teacher and the Student

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

19
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Camille Saint-Saёns

Featuring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Dmitry Shabetya, Yaroslav Petryanik, Oleg Sychov, Stanislav Trofimov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Anna Savkina (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rahbari

21
June
Sunday
Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
20:00

Soloists: Inara Kozlovskaya, Zinaida Tsarenko, Sergei Skorokhodov, Maharram Huseynov
The Mariinsky Opera soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp

Concert Hall
19:00
22
June
Monday
25
June
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Anastasia Lukina, Ramanbek Beishenaliev

Mariinsky II
19:00
PERFORMANCE BY THE BOLSHOI THEATRE
26
June
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
12:00
PERFORMANCE BY THE BOLSHOI THEATRE
Mariinsky II
19:00
PERFORMANCE BY THE BOLSHOI THEATRE
27
June
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

The Mariinsky soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov

28
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Ludwig Minkus
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Yevgeny Konovalov

Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Sofia Yakovenko (violin)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo

29
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
30
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Alexei Timofeyev

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:00
Prize-winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition

Sofia Viland (flute), Ilya Papoyan (piano), Marina Komarova (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Zaurbek Gugkaev

1
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
2
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
Tsvetana Omeltchuk (mezzо-soprano), Elena Serova (harpsichord)

3
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
20:00

cantata by Carl Orff
Soloists: Anastasia Kalagina, Andrei Popov, Vladislav Kupriyanov
The Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov

4
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
5
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Marking 185 years since the world premiere
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking 185 years since the world premiere
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Yevgeny Konovalov

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:30
6
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Adolphe Adam
Mariinsky II
20:00
Marking 120 years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:00

Maria Bakanina, Amina Kairat, Valeria Khadikova, Yekaterina Latysheva, Tsvetana Omeltchuk, Mariana Ramazanova, Regina Rustamova, Sofia Shirinkina, Mikhail Pavlov, Dmitry Podrazhanets, Dmitry Voropaev

7
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Elena Svinko, Ruslan Stenyushkin

8
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
9
July
Thursday
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists: Isabella Andriasyn, Daria Riabokon, Klim Tikhonov, Stepan Zavalishin
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov

11
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
17:00
Star cast of artists
Concert Hall
14:00

Programme: Schubert, Liszt, Debussy, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff

12
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Maria Bulanova, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Yevgeny Konovalov

Concert Hall
12:00
Komödie mit Musik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Featuring Olga Pudova, Larisa Yudina, Dmitry Voropaev, Denis Begansky, Andrei Gorbunov

Concert Hall
20:00
13
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini

Featuring Angelina Akhmedova, Gamid Abdulov, Daryana Bobarykina, Alexander Gontsa, Rauf Timergazin

Mariinsky II
19:00
14
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
20:00
Marking 120 years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich

Soloist: Varvara Kutuzova (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

15
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, production by Yuri Temirkanov

Featuring Mikhail Pavlov, Inara Kozlovskaya, Roman Shirokikh, Svetlana Karpova, Gennady Bezzubenkov

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists: Anastasia Kalagina (soprano), Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp

16
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Featuring by the opera soloists of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Antonín Dvořák

Featuring Maria Bayankina, Ilya Selivanov, Bakuri Kalichava, Tatiana Starkova, Anna Matis

17
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Kimin Kim, Maria Iliushkina

Mariinsky II
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:30

Ilya Papoyan (piano), Anton Kozmin, Marina Komarova (violin), Yuri Afonkin (viola), Oleg Sendetsky (cello), Nikita Istomin, Ivan Lazukov (trumpet), Zakhar Katsman (horn),  Alexei Lobikov (trombone), Yevgeny Borodavko (tuba)

18
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Olesya Novikova, Minchul Jeon, Valeria Kuznetsova

Mariinsky II
13:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
19
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Daria Ustyuzhanina, Aaron Osawa-Horowitz

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Alisa Barinova, Yevgeny Konovalov, Maria Bulanova

Mariinsky II
13:00
operetta by Johann Strauss II

Featuring Sergei Semishkur, Oxana Shilova, Polina Lapteva, Klim Tikhonov, Sergei Romanov, Yekaterina Sergeyeva

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
13:00
Concert Hall
19:00
20
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Featuring Oleg Videman, Gelena Gaskarova, Roman Burdenko, Alexander Timchenko, Rauf Timergazin

21
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
22
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Featuring Boris Stepanov, Antonina Vesenina, Marina Tekhteleva, Klim Tikhonov, Gevorg Grigoryan
Conductor: Justus Frantz

The Rachmaninov Hall
19:00
Musical dialogue between Russia and China

Elena Zastavnaya, Maria Paymanova (soprano), Sunaer (mezzo-soprano), Yu Siyan (baritone), Wang Shen (pipa), Yevgeny Zhelinsky (balalaika), Alla Shmeliova (piano)

23
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
20:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Richard Wagner, first part of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Featuring Roman Burdenko, Yevgeny Nikitin, Yulia Matochkina, Mikhail Vekua, Vadim Kravets, Miroslav Molchanov, Andrei Zorin, Anna Kiknadze
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
13:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists: Abisal Gergiev, Ivan Rudin (piano)
The Mariinsky Women's Chorus
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Ivan Rudin

24
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking twenty five years of the stage career of Ekaterina Kondaurova
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Maria Bulanova, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky II
17:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Richard Wagner, second part of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Featuring Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Mikhail Petrenko, Mikhail Vekua, Yulia Matochkina, Irina Churilova, Pavel Shmulevich
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
Close of the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble season

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



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