Theatre

Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers

The Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers was founded in 1998 at the initiative of Valery Gergiev, general and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre. Over a short period of time, it quickly won rec...

Mariinsky Opera

The Mariinsky opera company is famous throughout the world. Its soloists are invited to perform in such top opera houses as La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, in Paris and Vienna, at international ...

Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky ballet company is indelibly linked to the history of Russian choreographic art. This history embraces more than two and a half centuries and begins in 1738, when Empress Anna Ioannovna ...

Mariinsky Orchestra

The symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre is one of the oldest in Russia. Its history dates back to the Court Instrumental Capella, created during the reign of Peter the Great. Mostly composed ...

Maly Theatre

The Mikhailovsky Theatre enjoyed a happy fate in the twentieth century, occupying a special place in the cultural life of Petrograd, Leningrad and St Petersburg. At one point intended to be a “labora...

Maly Opera

On 6 March 1918, a performance of Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia was given in the premises of the former Mikhailovsky Theatre, which had been abandoned by the French company ...

Mariinsky Museum

Over the past two centuries, the Mariinsky Theatre has grown into one of the world’s top opera and ballet companies. Throughout this time, the theatre has amassed a unique collection of works of art ...

St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

The St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest in Russia. Its official birthday, 1882, is preceded by a series of events that now comprise the history of musical life in the former capital of...

Small Hall

The history of the building now famous as the Small Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, when it was used to hold balls and masquerades for the arist...

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