XXXIV MUSIC FESTIVAL STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS

29 May – 24 July 2026

The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Artistic director of the festival is Valery Gergiev

28
June
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Ludwig Minkus
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Yevgeny Konovalov

Mariinsky II
Tickets on sale at the theatre box-office
13:00
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Sofia Yakovenko (violin)
The St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo

29
June
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
30
June
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Alexei Timofeyev

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:00
Prize-winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition

Sofia Viland (flute), Ilya Papoyan (piano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Zaurbek Gugkaev

1
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Featuring Aigul Khismatullina, Zinaida Tsarenko, Kirill Belov, Dmitry Grigoriev, Alexander Mangutov, Miroslav Molchanov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

2
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Concert Hall
19:00
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici
Featuring Tsvetana Omeltchuk (mezzо-soprano)

3
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Amilcare Ponchielli

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
20:00

cantata by Carl Orff
Soloists: Anastasia Kalagina, Andrei Popov, Vladislav Kupriyanov
The Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin Rylov

The Stravinsky Hall
16:00
4
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
13:00
PREMIERE
opera by Amilcare Ponchielli

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky II
19:00
PREMIERE
opera by Amilcare Ponchielli

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
5
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
Marking 185 years since the world premiere
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Maria Khoreva, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking 185 years since the world premiere
ballet by Adolphe Adam

Featuring Oxana Skorik, Yevgeny Konovalov

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:30

Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers

6
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Performance by the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre
ballet by Adolphe Adam
Mariinsky II
20:00
Marking 120 years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
The Stravinsky Hall
19:00

Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers

7
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Elena Svinko, Ruslan Stenyushkin

8
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Dmitry Shostakovich
Mariinsky II
19:00
9
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Gioachino Rossini
Mariinsky II
19:00
11
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 Oxana Skorik, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
17:00
Star cast of artists
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers

12
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
13:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Maria Bulanova, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Nadezhda Batoeva, Kian Manghise

Mariinsky II
19:00
Star cast of artists
opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Featuring Vladislav Sulimsky, Ferruccio Furlanetto

Concert Hall
12:00
Komödie mit Musik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Hall
20:00
PREMIERE
opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff
13
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Giacomo Puccini

Featuring Diana Kazanlieva, Roman Shirokikh, Valeria Lebedieva, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Maxim Daminov

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Pietro Mascagni

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Claude Debussy
14
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Sergei Prokofiev
15
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, production by Yuri Temirkanov
Mariinsky II
19:00
ballet by Boris Tishchenko

Featuring Zlata Yalinich, Yuri Smekalov
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00

Soloist: Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp

16
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mariinsky II
19:00
ballet by Boris Tishchenko

Featuring Alexander Sergeev

Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Antonín Dvořák
17
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Renata Shakirova, Kimin Kim

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Olga Borodina

Concert Hall
19:00
one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini
The Stravinsky Hall
19:30

Ilya Papoyan (piano), Anton Kozmin, Marina Komarova (violin), Yuri Afonkin (viola), Oleg Sendetsky (cello), Nikita Istomin, Ivan Lazukov (trumpet), Zakhar Katsman (horn),  Alexei Lobikov (trombone), Yevgeny Borodavko (tuba)

18
July
Saturday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Olesya Novikova, Minchul Jeon

Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Georges Bizet

Featuring Yulia Matochkina

19
July
Sunday
Mariinsky Theatre
12:00
ballet by Herman von Lovenskjøld

Featuring Daria Ustyuzhanina, Aaron Osawa-Horowitz

Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Featuring Alisa Barinova, Yevgeny Konovalov

Mariinsky II
13:00
operetta by Johann Strauss II
Mariinsky II
19:00
operetta by Johann Strauss II
Concert Hall
13:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Concert Hall
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
20
July
Monday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Giuseppe Verdi
21
July
Tuesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Mariinsky II
19:00
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
22
July
Wednesday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
23
July
Thursday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Featuring Maria Shirinkina, Timur Askerov

Mariinsky II
20:00
opera by Richard Wagner, first part of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
13:00
opera by Gioacchino Rossini (concert performance)
Concert Hall
19:00

Soloists: Abisal Gergiev, Ivan Rudin (piano)
The Mariinsky Women's Chorus
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Ivan Rudin

24
July
Friday
Mariinsky Theatre
19:00
Marking twenty five years of the stage career of Ekaterina Kondaurova
ballet by Ludwig Minkus

Featuring Ekaterina Kondaurova, Oxana Skorik, Nikita Korneyev

Mariinsky II
17:00
opera by Richard Wagner, second part of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Concert Hall
19:00
THE MARIINSKY STRADIVARIUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble
Soloist and conductor: Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici



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