On May 29, 2022 the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre closed its 9th season with a concert performance of the grand national music drama Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky
From May 27 to June 1, 2022, Fikret Amirov’s ballet A Thousand and One Nights was premiered at the National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria. The ballet production has been choreographed by Eldar Aliev, Ballet Artistic Director of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre
On May 28, 2022, during the XXX Stars of the White Nights Festival, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, a baritone soloist of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, first appeared as Napoléon in Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace at the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre