Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Renata Shakirova, Roman Belyakov
Featuring Oxana Skorik, Nikita Korneyev, Maria Shirinkina, Alexander Sergeev
Featuring Natalya Levchuk, Akhmed Agadi, Yekaterina Goncharova, Alexander Morozov, Andrei Spekhov, Alexander Timchenko, Oleg Balashov
Conductor: Haoran Li
Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine, Elena Yevseyeva, Konstantin Zverev
Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Timur Askerov, May Nagahisa, Nail Yenikeyev
Featuring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Stanislav Trofimov, Mikhail Petrenko, Igor Morozov, Yevgeny Akimov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Andrei Zorin
Featuring Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Antonina Vesenina, Denis Zakirov, Oleg Sychov, Natalia Yevstafieva, Andrei Spekhov
Featuring Kimin Kim, Maria Shirinkina, Valeria Kuznetsova, Nikita Korneyev
Featuring Yekaterina Savinkova, Gleb Peryazev, Yekaterina Krapivina, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Oleg Videman, Anton Khalansky
Featuring Aigul Khismatullina, Miroslav Molchanov, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Yuri Vlasov, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Yevgeny Akimov
a music and literature composition, marking 110 years since the birth of Vadim Shefner
Narrator: Mikhail Nicolas
Soloists: Yekaterina Sergeyeva (mezzo-soprano), Vadim Kravets (bass)
The Admiralty Orchestra of the Leningrad Naval Base
Conductor: Nikita Ignatov
Soloists: Emil Eldirekov (violin), Mikhail Pirozhenko (piano), Semyon Salomatnikov (trumpet), Vladislav Scherbakov (bass-trombone)
The Symphony Orchestra of the Middle Specialised School of Music of the Petersburg Conservatoire
Conductors: Arkady Shteinlukht, Arseny Shuplyakov
Featuring Yekaterina Solovyova, Adrian Zykov, Marina Tekhteleva, Nadezhda Serdyuk, Olga Baranenko, Alexander Timchenko
Featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Tatiana Serjan, Ildar Abdrazakov, Sergei Skorokhodov, Pavel Yankovsky, Gleb Peryazev
Featuring Camilla Mazzi, Alexei Timofeyev, Alexei Kuzmin, Maria Bulanova
Featuring Olesya Novikova, Timur Askerov, Danila Korsuntsev, Kristina Shapran
Featuring Ildar Abdrazakov, Tatiana Serjan, Kirill Belov, Vladislav Sulimsky
Featuring Alexander Mikhailov, Evelina Agabalaeva, Kristina Gontsa, Anzhelika Minasova, Yegor Chubakov
On 9 and 10 June the Mariinsky Ballet Company will tour the Armenian capital of Yerevan. The performances will take place on an open-air stage in Tumanyan Park. On the first evening the programme will feature one-act ballets by Michel Fokine; on the second evening audiences will enjoy a ballet divertissement drawn from masterpieces of the world repertoire. The tour will feature stars of the St Petersburg ballet stage alongside rising young artists. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Arseny Shuplyakov
In June and July the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will embark on a major series of reciprocal tours in St Petersburg and Moscow. First, however, on 9, 10 and 11 June the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will perform at the Zaryadye Moscow Concert Hall. In this anniversary year celebrating the 185th anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s birth, the orchestra and maestro will present a lavish programme devoted to the composer’s works. Across three evenings the complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s numbered symphonies will be performed
Each year the Music Festival Stars of the White Nights brings audiences unforgettable appearances by world-renowned artists. Among this June’s special guests will be the brilliant Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto. This season he has prepared a very special gift for St Petersburg audiences: on 15 June the singer will give a solo recital, and on 17 June he will return to the Historic Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre to perform the title role in Massenet’s Don Quichotte
Today, on 22 May, the Mariinsky Theatre opens the XXXIII Music Festival Stars of the White Nights with a grand celebration. Year after year the festival draws the attention of audiences from around the world who cherish musical and theatrical art. Stars of the White Nights remains one of the most prominent and anticipated cultural events of the Mariinsky Theatre – the culmination of its entire season. This year’s festival runs from 22 May to 3 August, with events scheduled across all of the theatre’s St Petersburg stages
The Mariinsky Theatre mourns the passing of the legendary choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, who died today at the age of 98. With his departure, an entire era in the history of ballet draws to a close. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues at this time of profound sorrow