Featuring Gelena Gaskarova, Ilya Selivanov, Andrei Serov, Tatiana Starkova, Anna Matis
Featuring Olesya Novikova, Nikita Korneyev, Danila Korsuntsev, Maria Bulanova
Featuring Igor Morozov, Svetlana Karpova, Kristina Kapitsyna, Yekaterina Solovyova, Oleg Sychov, Andrei Serov, Vadim Kravets
Soloists: Sviatoslav Chernov, Ellina Gavrish (clarinet), Vladislav Kupriyanov (baritone)
Conductor: Nikita Ignatov
Programme: original works and arrangements for concert band
Featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Alena Diyanova, Alexander Mikhailov, Yuri Vorobiev
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Alexander Sergeev
Featuring Ekaterina Lukash, Akhmed Agadi
Featuring Oxana Skorik, Kian Mangis
Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kristina Shapran, Anastasia Lukina, Valeria Kuznetsova, Konstantin Zverev, Yevgeny Konovalov, Vladislav Shumakov
Olga Kotlyarova (organ)
The Mariinsky Opera soloists and Chorus
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov
Narrator: Sergey Barkovsky
Soloists: Kristina Gontsa, Daria Rositskaya, Alexander Timchenko, Miroslav Molchanov
Oxana Klevtsova (harpsichord) and the Mariinsky Orchestra musicians
Soloists, Choir and Symphony Orchestra Northern Symphony of the Chaliapin Musical Theatre
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
On 1 October the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev performed in Yerevan. The soloist was Pavel Milyukov, Honoured Artist of Russia and a prize-winner of major international violin competitions. The performance took place at the city’s main venue, the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, as part of the 17th Yerevan International Music Festival
For the first time the Sevastopol State Opera and Ballet Theatre will perform in St Petersburg, presenting two major premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre. The tour programme includes the ballet Polikushka to the music of Rachmaninoff, choreographed by Jonah Paul Cook, and Rachmaninoff’s opera Aleko staged by Ildar Abdrazakov. International stars Ildar Abdrazakov, Dinara Alieva and Maria Alexandrova will take part in the performances. Aleko will be conducted by Valery Gergiev
From 9 to 12 October the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will tour St Petersburg with five performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s comic ballet The Bright Stream at the Mariinsky II. The production features leading stars of the Moscow stage. Set designer: Boris Messerer. Conductor: Pavel Sorokin. Lighting designer: Igor Deryugin
In the new season the Mariinsky Theatre continues to honour the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose 165th anniversary is being widely celebrated this year. At the beginning of September Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present works by the symphonic genius at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, while a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform under maestro Gergiev on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre
In the new season the Mariinsky Theatre continues to honour the great Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose 165th anniversary is being widely celebrated this year. At the beginning of September Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present works by the symphonic genius at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, while a combined symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform under maestro Gergiev on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre