XXXIII Music Festival Stars of the White Nights

22 May – 3 August 2025
The festival's rich program will encompass all the Saint Petersburg stages of the Mariinsky Theatre.
The artistic director of the festival is Valery Gergiev.
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The program will include additional pieces.

4
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
Tickets on sale at the theatre box-office
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
Tickets on sale at the theatre box-office
19:00
PREMIERE
Concert Hall
Tickets on sale at the theatre box-office
19:00
An evening of vocal music

Programme: Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, de Falla, Granados, Bizet

5
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim

Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Concert Hall
13:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini

Featuring Yekaterina Goncharova, Gamid Abdulov, Daryana Bobarykina, Maxim Daminov

Concert Hall
20:00
Marking 165 years since the birth of Gustav Mahler

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

6
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Roman Belyakov

Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Concert Hall
13:00
Concert Hall
20:00

Soloist: Yuri Afonkin (viola)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

7
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
Marking 165 years since the birth of Gustav Mahler

Soloists: Ivan Sendetskiy (cello), Anastasia Kalagina (sopranо)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp

8
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Yevgeny Konovalov

Mariinsky II
19:00
9
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Philipp Stepin

Mariinsky II
19:00
Star cast of artists
Concert Hall
19:00
10
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Olesya Novikova, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
19:00
11
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Featuring Ambrogio Maestri, Boris Stepanov, Oleg Balashov

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
Concert Hall
22:00
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

Programme: Dvořák, Suk
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici

12
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Ludwig Minkus
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim

Mariinsky II
17:00
Concert Hall
13:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini
13
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Camilla Mazzi, Yevgeny Konovalov

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Maria Iliushkina, Even Capitaine

Mariinsky II
13:00
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Featuring Antonina Vesenina, Yulia Suleimanova, Klim Tikhonov, Vladimir Feliauer, Anna Shulgina, Alexander Gontsa

Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
14
July
Monday
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Concert Hall
19:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Gaetano Donizetti (concert performance)

Featuring Albina Shagimuratova, Sergei Skorokhodov, Pavel Yankovsky, Miroslav Molchanov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

15
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Olga Savova

Concert Hall
19:00
Close of the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble season

Soloist: Vladimir Vishnevsky (piano, 1st prize and Gold Medal of the II Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors, 2025)
The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici

16
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Featuring Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Hibla Gerzmava, Alexey Markov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

17
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Daria KulikovaMinchul Jeon

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Richard Wagner
18
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Georges Bizet

Featuring Anna Kiknadze, Akhmed Agadi

Mariinsky II
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Leo Delibes
19
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim, Maria Iliushkina

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Richard Strauss

Featuring Maria Bayankina, Aigul Khismatullina, Daria Rositskaya, Sergei Skorokhodov, Alexander Oleshko

20
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
13:00
opera by Richard Strauss

Featuring Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Kristina Gontsa, Daria Riabokon, Mikhail Vekua, Alexander Oleshko

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Richard Strauss

Featuring Irina Churilova, Olga Pudova, Irina Shishkova, Igor Morozov, Alexander Oleshko

21
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
22
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Richard Wagner
23
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Vincenzo Bellini

Featuring Albina Shagimuratova

24
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring May Nagahisa, Yaroslav Baibordin

Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Vincenzo Bellini
Concert Hall
19:00
Performance due to have taken place on 25 May and 14 June
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
25
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Vlada Borodulina, Alexei Timofeyev

Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Vincenzo Bellini
26
July
Saturday
Mariinsky II
13:00
PREMIERE
opera by Vincenzo Bellini
Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Vincenzo Bellini

Featuring Albina Shagimuratova

27
July
Sunday
Mariinsky II
13:00
operetta by Johann Strauss II
Mariinsky II
19:00
operetta by Johann Strauss II
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
28
July
Monday
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
29
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
30
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Camille Saint-Saёns
31
July
Thursday
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
1
August
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
2
August
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
20:00
opera by Sergei Prokofiev
3
August
Sunday
Mariinsky II
19:30

The Mariinsky Opera soloists, Chorus and Orchestra

28
September
Sunday
Concert Hall
19:00
Concert has been rescheduled from 27 May and 12 June, 2025

excerpts from Andrei Petrov's opera




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