Featuring Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Migran Agadzhanyan, Mikhail Petrenko
Featuring Askar Abdrazakov, Anna Kiknadze, Andrei Serov, Lyudmila Razumkova, Regina Rustamova, Nikolai Yemtsov, Dmitry Koleushko
Fedor Osver (oboe), Vazgen Yusupov (clarinet), Inna Yakusheva (violin)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Maxim Fedotov
Featuring Maharram Huseynov, Mikhail Petrenko, Antonina Vesenina, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Yevgeny Akhmedov, Oleg Sychov, Anna Denisova, Yuri Vlasov
Soloist: Reza Fekri (tenor)
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Rahbari
Featuring Alexander Fyodorov, Anastasia Donets, Viktoria Yastrebova, Viacheslav Kozlovski, Pavel Shmulevich, Varvara Solovyova, Vadim Kravets, Elena Gorlo
Featuring Savva Khastaev, Albina Sharafutdinova, Anna Matis, Grigory Chernetsov, Grigor Verner, Elena Vitman, Ivan Novosyolov, Tsvetana Omeltchuk
Featuring Alexander Fyodorov, Anastasia Donets, Anna Kiknadze, Viacheslav Kozlovski, Pavel Shmulevich, Elena Vitman, Denis Begansky, Elena Gorlo
Narrator: Polina Malikova (Tolstun)
Soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra
Featuring Andrei Serov, Nadezhda Serdyuk, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Maria Bayankina, Kira Loginova
Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers
Vasily Popov (piano)
Featuring Maharram Huseynov, Aigul Khismatullina, Yaroslav Petryanik, Boris Stepanov, Oleg Balashov
Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Maxim Izmestiev, Anastasia Lukina, Kimin Kim
The Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Arsenty Tkachenko
Featuring Isabella Andriasyn, Irina Mataeva, Anna Kiknadze, Yevgeny Akimov, Viktor Korotich, Denis Begansky
Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, May Nagahisa, Elena Yevseyeva, Alexander Sergeev, Konstantin Zverev, Yaroslav Baibordin, Yevgeny Konovalov
Featuring Yaroslav Petryanik, Elena Ushakova, Anastasia Kalagina, Yegor Chubakov, Elena Gorlo, Irma Gigolaty, Grigory Karasev
The Mariinsky Theatre is currently on a captivating tour of the Middle East, running from 18 to 27 January. Opera soloists, the Chorus, and the Orchestra, led by the renowned Valery Gergiev, will grace the stages of the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman and the National Theatre of Bahrain in Manama. Audiences can look forward to Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, alongside arias and symphonic excerpts from operas and ballets by some of the greatest Russian and European composers
Philipp Stepin was born in Leningrad into a ballet family. In 2005 he graduated with honours from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Boris Bregvadze) and joined the Mariinsky Ballet. He was promoted to Soloist in 2009
On 19, 22 and 29 December the Mariinsky Theatre will present the first premiere of its 242nd season – a new production of Richard Wagner’s enchanting opera Tristan und Isolde. Directors Konstantin Balakin and Alexei Stepanyuk, together with designer Elena Vershinina, will bring this ode to all-consuming love to life on the stage of the Concert Hall
On 10 and 11 December the Mariinsky Theatre will present two performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades in Yuri Temirkanov’s legendary production on the Historic Stage. This marks the return of the production to the theatre after an absence of almost ten years, coinciding with the 86th birthday of the eminent conductor and director
Due to popular demand, the Bolshoi Theatre will present additional performances of The Queen of Spades – a large-scale collaboration between Russia’s two leading opera houses