• End of season 2010/11 14 September 2010 ... 31 July 2011
• Mariinsky Theatre on tour August, September
• Upcoming season 2011/12: the start 26...29 September
• Box-office hours 1 August ... 5 September

Last night, 228th season at the Mariinsky Theatre has come to a close. Two days earlier, the season came to a close at the Mariinsky Concert Hall. Tours of our theater do not have clear season boundaries since our artists intensively perform during the off-season period. The season 2010/11 has been extremely busy for us. We are pleased that many of our projects during this season have raised a great interest and positive reception among our audience. Thanks for your interest and support. It is having our audiences in mind, first and foremost, we plan the schedule of our theater.

• Season 2010/11: 14 September ... 31 July — 321 days.
• Mariinsky Theatre: 320 performances and concerts.
• Mariinsky Theatre: 3 opera and 2 ballet premieres:
  • Opera The Makropulos Affair by Leoš Janáček, staged by Graham Vick;
  • Opera L’elisir d’amore by Gaetano Donizetti, staged by Laurent Pelly;
  • Opera Dead Souls by Rodion Shchedrin, staged by Vasily Barkhatov;
  • Ballet Le Parc, music by Mozart, choreography by Angelin Preljocaj;
  • Ballet Without, music by Chopin, choreography by Benjamin Millepied;
• Mariinsky Concert Hall: 246 performances and concerts.
• Mariinsky Concert Hall: 4 opera premieres:
  • Opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, staged by Michael Sturminger;
  • Opera The Station Master by Alexander Smelkov, staged by Sofia Sirakanian;
  • Opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, staged by Daniele Finzi Pasca;
  • Opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten, staged by Claudia Solti;
• Regular festivals and special season projects:
  • Subscription series of 6 performances by the Mariinsky Theatre at the Veliky Novgorod Philharmonic Hall;
  • 3rd Brass Evenings at the Mariinsky International Festival;
  • Performances by prize-winners of the 16th International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition;
  • 7th Maslenitsa Festival;
  • 1st Contemporary Piano Faces International Festival;
  • 11th Mariinsky Ballet Festival;
  • 19th Stars of the White Nights Music Festival.

During the summer off-season the Ballet, Opera, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre will have an intensive touring schedule. In various parts of the world we will be presenting a wide range of music works. Mariinsky Opera Company and Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra will take part in a series of prestigious European festivals. All operatic and orchestra performances in August and September will be held under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

Touring schedule of the Mariinsky Ballet Company in August and September is distributed over a wide geographic range and tours are quite long. The program consists of true ballet masterpieces, those works which are considered to be real landmarks of the Mariinsky Ballet.

The new season kicks off in our theater in exactly 8 weeks. Complete September and October playbills for the the Mariinsky Theatre and the Mariinsky Concert Hall are already available on our web-site. Tickets for these months are on sale at the Mariinsky Theatre official web-site. You could also purchase new season subscription series. The subscription campaign was launched two months ago, and we experience a high demand for a number of our subscriptions, thus we recommend purchasing your tickets in advance to reserve best seats in the hall for all performances and/or concerts.

For the first five weeks of our eight-week break between seasons, our box-office hours change.

Box-office hours from 1 August to 5 September (incl.)

• At the Mariinsky Theatre
  1, Teatralnaya Square
  — box-office closed
• At the Mariinsky Concert Hall
  37, Dekabristov Street
  — box-office closed
• At the Central Agency of Air Communications
  7/9, Nevsky Prospect; ground floor
  — box-office closed
• At the Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor
  35, Nevsky Prospekt; corner of the Nevskaya and Perinnaya Lines, mezzanine level
  — Mon.—Fri.: 11:00AM—2:00PM & 3:00PM—7:00PM
  — Sat.—Sun.: box-office closed
• Ticket reservation service
  Phone: +7 (812) 326-41-41
  — Mon.—Fri.: 11:00AM—6:00PM
  — Sat.—Sun.: closed
• Mariinsky Theatre official web-site
  https://tickets.mariinsky.ru/en/
  — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week