Featuring Alexey Markov, Maria Bayankina, Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Roman Shirokikh, Mikhail Kit
Featuring Maria Chernyvskaya, Yaroslav Baibordin
Soloist: Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
St Petersburg Chamber Chorus
Сonductor: Elena Kurnosenko
Featuring Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Albina Shagimuratova, Vladislav Sulimsky, Roman Shirokikh, Maharram Huseynov, Natalia Yevstafieva
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
The Boys’ Chorus of the Glinka Choral School
Conductor: Valentin Lyashchenko
Featuring Vladimir Galouzine, Irina Churilova, Olga Borodina, Vladislav Sulimsky, Roman Burdenko
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Anastasia Lukina, Roman Malyshev
Featuring Diana Kazanlieva, Yaramir Nizamutdinov, Miroslav Molchanov
Featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Maria Bayankina, Alexander Mikhailov, Anna Kiknadze, Mikhail Kolelishvili
Soloists: Pavel Milyukov (violin), Miroslav Kultyshev (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Fyodor Beznosikov
Featuring Pelageya Kurennaya, Vladimir Moroz, Daria Rositskaya, Alexander Mikhailov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Featuring Yekaterina Savinkova, Yulia Matochkina, Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Kirill Belov, Dmitry Grigoriev, Oleg Balashov, Miroslav Molchanov
Featuring Kristina Gontsa, Maharram Huseynov
Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Roman Belyakov
Featuring Larisa Yudina, Anastasia Kalagina, Roman Arndt, Yuri Vorobiev, Anna Shulgina, Yaroslav Petryanik
Featuring Antonina Vesenina, Kira Loginova, Klim Tikhonov, Pavel Shmulevich, Kristina Gontsa, Stepan Zavalishin
Soloists: Nazija Amineva (soprano), Timofei Kalmykov (piano)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Oleg Khudyakov
Featuring Daria Kulikova, Yevgeny Konovalov
Featuring Polina Sharovarova, Alexander Fyodorov, Yaroslav Petryanik, Nikolai Kamensky, Denis Begansky, Irma Gigolaty
Featuring Olga Pudova, Vladimir Moroz, Boris Stepanov, Andrei Spekhov, Yuri Vorobiev, Evelina Agabalaeva
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloists and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici (violin)
Featuring Ekaterina Shipulina, Oleg Gabyshev
The Mariinsky Theatre has traditionally prepared a dazzling array of holiday events for audiences of all ages. Vivid productions, fairy-tale narratives and magnificent music make it irresistible – for children and adults alike – to immerse themselves in the world of winter magic during the New Year season
From 11 to 14 December the Primorsky Stage will host the ballet programme of the X International Mariinsky Far East Festival. Audiences will be treated to Gala Concert. Carmen Suite, Don Quixote and A Thousand and One Nights, featuring distinguished principal ballerinas and soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre from St Petersburg
On 24, 25 and 26 November the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the premiere performances of a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel. The family-oriented fairytale staging is being created by director Anna Shishkina, set designer Varvara Pletneva and costume designer Antonia Shestakova. The first premiere performance will be conducted by the production’s music director, Valery Gergiev
From 20 November to 16 December the two Russian capitals will host a large-scale musical tribute festival, Maya and Rodion, dedicated to the memory of the outstanding composer and the legendary ballerina. Events celebrating Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin will take place on the stages of the leading venues in Moscow and St Petersburg. The festival is presented with media support from Channel One Russia and the VK Video platform. Key events will be broadcast live, allowing audiences across all regions of Russia to join the celebration. In addition, screenings will be held in cinemas throughout the country with support from KINO.ART.PRO. The festival’s Music Director is Valery Gergiev
The Mariinsky Theatre’s large-scale tour of China came to a triumphant close today in Xi’an with a concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. From 12 to 27 October the acclaimed maestro and orchestra performed in Beijing and Shanghai and, for the first time, in Wuhan, Kunming, Changsha and Xi’an, giving a total of fourteen performances


