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Lada Sartakova, Denis Klepikov, Vladislav Rzhevsky and the Coach-repetituers Natalia Raldugina and Alexander Kurkov became prizewinners at the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers, held in Yoshkar-Ola from April 19 to April 26, 2025.

Now the winners for the Classical Dance nomination and Special Michael Fokine nominations are announced. The first soloists of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov, received 1st prizes in the Duet nomination (senior group). Vladislav Rzhevsky, a dancer of the Ballet Company, was awarded special prize for the best choreography of a dancing performance specially staged for the Competition. Moreover, the Coach-repetiteur Natalia Raldugina and the Ballet Director Alexander Kurkov, Honored Artist of Russia, were awarded special prize for coaches successfully preparing participants in the Competition (senior group). 

This year the Competition is dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of Michael Fokine, an outstanding ballet dancer, choreographer and educator. The competitive selection of participants included several rounds. Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov were distantly selected though the entry list included 120 applicants from 23 Russian cities, and later they successfully demonstrated their skills in live contests.

For the Classical Dance nomination, the dancers performed pas de deux from The Nutcracker and pas d’esclave from Le Corsaire choreographed by Eldar Aliev. As part of the Special Michael Fokine nomination, the soloists presented the contemporary choreographic piece QuintAv to music from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, which was choreographed by Vladislav Rzhevsky.

The events of the saturated May playbill begin from the very first days of the month. The May holidays will be decorated with Adolphe Adam’s famous ballets Giselle on May 1, 2025 and Le Corsaire on May 3, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sparkling opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro on May 2 and May 4, 2025 and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s timeless classical ballet Swan Lake on May 8, 2025. The 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be marked with special events. On May 7 and May 8, 2025, beloved popular wartime songs will be performed by opera soloists of the Primorsky Stage in the Chamber Hall. On May 9, 2025, the Primorsky Stage will in concert present Alexander Borodin’s monumental opera Prince Igor where patriotism, courage and military virtue are main themes of the epic composition.

The premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore will be the biggest event of the opera playbill. The somber romantic drama will unfold on the stage where two brothers, not suspecting their blood relationship, become implacable rivals in love and power. The opera music is distinguished by bright expression, and the intensity of emotions is rising while the performance goes on, transporting the audience to medieval Spain. The closing season premiere will be performed on May 23 and May 25, 2025.

The noticeable event of the ballet playbill is the return of Fikret Amirov’s ballet A Thousand and One Nights, which rates among the 100 best performances of the Golden Pool of the Russian Theatrical Productions. Now the ballet, which is based on the famous collection of Arabic and Persian fairy tales and unites neoclassical plastic, sound of traditional instruments and incredible entertainment and beauty effects in itself, has become the most often toured one in the repertoire of the Primorsky Stage. This season it was first performed in Beijing and Oman’s capital Muscat. Vladivostok will be given a unique opportunity to enjoy the colorful performance at the Primorsky Stage on May 10, 2025 at 15:00 and 19:00.

The eventful May will cheer the public with concerts dedicated to the anniversary of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s birth. On May 18, 2025, Ravil Islyamov, an outstanding violinist, recipient of 2nd prize and the Silver Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, will appear on the stage together with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage. The programme will include the Romance in F minor, for piano, the Violin Concerto and the Symphony No. 4. On May 29, 2025, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage conducted by the Principal Chorus Master Larisa Shveikovskaya will for the first time perform the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, one of the most important sacred compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. On May 31, 2025, marking the composer’s anniversary, a grand Gala concert of romances will be given by opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under Pavel Smelkov’s baton.

The concert playbill will also surprise the public with theatrical concerts with sand animation, which will be for the first time moved to the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. On May 28, 2025, the well-known cycle Le quattro stagioni by Antonio Vivaldi will be performed. The audience will be able to enjoy a musical journey over the seasons, being illustrated with sand pictures right at the moments of performance. On May 30, 2025, the musical fairy tale Ruslan and Lyudmila in its version literarily composed and musically edited by the Theatre’s Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov, will be performed. Among the exclusive music events, there will also be a concert on the occasion of the Day of Slavonic Literature, which will be given on May 24, 2025.

The Primorsky Stage will open its doors to guest ensembles and musicians. On May 5, 2025, the Mangyongdae School Children’s Palace of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will for the first time present a concert in the Great Hall of the Theatre. On May 16, 2025, an exquisite Evening of violin music will be held in the Chamber Hall. Violinist Ravil Islyamov, a prizewinner at international competitions, will be a soloist accompanied by pianist Sholpan Barlykova. On May 25, 2025, also in the Chamber Hall a graduate concert will be given by the Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, one of the best and oldest schools of ballet all over the world.

The May playbill also includes favorite and new repertoire performances. The audiences are looking forward to enjoying bold and original productions such as Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges on May 11, 2025, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte on May 14, 2025, and Igor Stravinsky’s ballets Les Noces and Petrouchka on May 15, 2025 and chamber opera Mavra on May 17, 2025 at 17:00 and 19:30. Among the classical pearls of the second half of May, there will be Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca on May 16, 2025, Alexander Glazunov’s ballet Raymonda on May 17, 2025 and Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle on May 24, 2025.

For the youngest audience, the one-act operas for children will be performed in the Chamber Hall, including Leonid Klinichev’s The Little Prince on May 8, 2025, Sergei Banevich’s Murych the Cat on May 10, 2025 at 12:00 and 15:00 and Gennady Gladkov’s Town Musicians of Bremen on May 24, 2025 at 12:00, 15:00 and 17:00.

Scenic Introductions will help to make a visit to the Primorsky Stage more exiting. Till the end of the season, the tours of the Theatre will be conducted on May 1, May 2 and May 3, 2025 at 12:00 and 17:00, on May 4, May 8 and May 10, 2025 at 13:00 and 17:00 and on May 11, May 17, May 18, May 24 and May 31, 2025.

From May 28, 2025 to June 8, 2025, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will tour in Krasnoyarsk. Its “Great Tour” is organized by the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture ROSCONCERT, according to the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As part of the “Leading Theatres” line of the “Great Tour” project, the ballets Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse), The Firebird and Phaedra, the operas Don Pasquale, Pagliacci and Iolanta and a gala concert will be toured at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

According to Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, “The main purpose of the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan is to familiarize as many Russians as possible with performances of our national ensembles and theatres. New participants join the project yearly, and we are thrilled that our creative community is an ever-growing one. Thus our unique cultural traditions and our musical and theatrical schools are preserved as well as find new addicts all over Russia.”

The Primorsky Stage will present its original performances and recent premieres to the Krasnoyarsk public.

The tour program will open with ballet productions. Rodion Shchedrin’s Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) will be performed on May 28, May 29 and May 30, 2025. On May 31 and June 1, 2025, the audience will be able to enjoy the original one-act ballet performances The Firebird and Phaedra. In Russia, the latter is only included in the repertoire of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage will continue the series of performances. In September 2024, the Primorsky Stage first went on its large-scale tour to Moscow to mark the opening of the season at the Bolshoi Theatre, and its tour to Krasnoyarsk will brilliantly terminate the season. The premiere of the last season – the bel canto era operatic masterpiece Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti – will be performed on June 3 and June 4, 2025. The operatic drama Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo will be performed on June 5 and June 6, 2025. This pearl of Italian verismo is originally staged and designed by Marat Gatsalov, a recipient of the Golden Mask theatre prize. On June 7, 2025, the Primorsky Stage will present Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s brightest opera Iolanta. This philosophical fairy tale of the revival of love and inner light will be presented in the production staged by Anna Shishkina and designed by Pyotr Okunev, a nominee for the Golden Mask theatre prize in 2025 for the best Set and Costume Designer’s work.

The grand gala concert will be the final event on tour. On June 8, 2025, it is to be given by soloists of the Opera Company, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Theatre.

Lada Sartakova and Denis Klepikov, first soloists of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, have been selected for the Competition though the entry list included 120 applicants from 23 Russian cities. Now they appear on the stage of the Erik Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre as participants in the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers.

The All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers is held in Yoshkar-Ola from April 19 to April 26, 2025. This year the artists will demonstrate their skills in the nomination “Classical dance”. The young dancers from Vladivostok will perform Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker and Pas d’Esclave from Le Corsaire choreographed by Eldar Aliev, and the contemporary choreographic piece QuintAv to music from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, which was choreographed by Vladislav Rzhevsky, a dancer of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

The All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers is held at the Erik Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre and dedicated to the 145^th anniversary of the birth of Miсhael Fokine, an outstanding Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and educator. Prof. Yury Grigorovich, People’s Artist of the USSR, a ballet master of the Bolshoi Theatre, is the Artistic Director of the Competition. The Competition is aimed to preserve the high traditions of academism and the vast heritage of classic ballet. It offers prizewinners an opportunity to take part in the International Ballet Competition in Moscow with no preliminary selection.

This year the largest music project in the region – the II Far East Easter Festival – is held from April 20, 2025 to April 29, 2025. The Festival will embrace such towns and cities as Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. As part of the forum, a total of 9 performances are expected to take place in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, the Jewish Autonomous Region and Amur Region. 

On April 20, 2025, the Festival started at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok. It opened with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s most lucid and lyrical opera Iolanta. This philosophical fairy tale of the revival of love and inner light was presented in the production staged by Anna Shishkina and designed by Pyotr Okunev, a nominee for the Golden Mask prize for the best Set and Costume Designer’s work.

On April 22, 2025, the large-scale Easter Concert will be given in the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. Opera soloists, singers of the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and members of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of the Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov will perform the cantata-mystery The Lilacs by the modern St. Petersburg composer Alexander Smelkov to poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva and “K.R.” (pen name of the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia). The other part of the programme will be performed by the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. The audience will be able to enjoy chants composed by such sacred concert masters as Pavel Chesnokov, Alexander Nikolski and Alexander Tretyakov, as well as music by such famous 20^th century Russian composers as Nikolai Tcherepnin, Georgy Sviridov, Sergei Prokofiev and others.

After the performances in Primorsky Territory, the Theatre team will go on its eventful tour which promises to be more expanded this year. The Festival will last 7 days and embrace 4 regions. The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will for the first time tour in the Jewish Autonomous and Amur Regions and later return to bring new concerts to Khabarovsk Territory where performances will be given in Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Moreover, one of the concerts in Khabarovsk will be a charity one for participants in the special military operation and members of their families.

The programme of touring concerts will be presented by soloists of the Opera Company and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage. It includes works by Russian composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev and Alexander Smelkov as well as compositions and arrangements by Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Primorsky Stage.

It should be noted that in 2024 the Primorsky Stage affiliated to the large-scale Moscow Easter Festival organized by Valery Gergiev, and presented the I Far East Easter Festival. Then the four cities (Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) could enjoy Russian and foreign music masterpieces. The Festival became the most outstanding event in the cultural life of the region and gave access to the world classical music art for more than 5000 people.

On May 7, 2025 the musical world will celebrate the 185^th anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s birth. In anticipation of the great day, the Mariinsky Theatre and the Primorsky Stage announce the Festival “Approaching jubilee of Pyotr Tchaikovsky”, presenting some selected works composed by the hero of the anniversary.

In Vladivostok, the project will open with pearls of Russian ballet. On April 12, 2025 the fairy-tale ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty will be performed in the Great Hall of the Theatre. Konstantin Sergeyev’s version of the ballet Swan Lake based both choreographically and musically on the revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, will be presented on April 17, 2025. The third Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet – The Nutcracker – in the expressive choreography by Eldar Aliev, People’s Artist of Russia, Ballet Artistic Director of the Primorsky Stage, will be performed on April 26, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00.

The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under Pavel Smelkov’s baton will present the large-scale tribute concert “Tchaikovsky – 185” on April 18, 2025. Soloists of the evening will be pianist Sergey Davydchenko, the recipient of the 1^st prize and the Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, and soprano Alisa Fedorenko, a soloist of the Primorsky Stage Opera Company. The audience will be able to enjoy the famous Piano Concerto No. 1; three pieces from the piano cycle The Seasons, orchestrated by Pavel Smelkov, Principal Conductor of the Primorsky Stage; Alexander Smelkov’s elegy Where Lies the Secret of Your Charms to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s poem; and the Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.

On April 20, 2025 the II Far East Easter Festival will start at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Iolanta, a philosophical fairy tale and the most lightful opera by Tchaikovsky, will be performed on the opening night of the Festival. 

It should be noted that the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will continue celebrating the anniversary of the great Russian composer’s birth until the end of May. As part of the II Far East Easter Festival, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music will be performed in the biggest cities and towns of the Far East, and special events will be held at the Primorsky Stage in Vladivostok. On May 18, 2025 the large-scale symphony concert will be given in the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage. The best-known sacred composition by Tchaikovsky – Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom – will be for the first time presented by the Mariinsky Chorus of the Primorsky Stage on May 29, 2025. The vocal lyrics evening “Tchaikovsky – 185. Gala concert of romances” to be given by soloists of the opera company and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will be held on May 31, 2025.

Besides, for the great occasion, the Primorsky Stage affords an opportunity to subscribe for the thematic series of performances, which allows the public to buy tickets for most of the Festival events at a special price.

From June 2, 2025 to June 15, 2025 the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will tour in Vladivostok. Its “Great Tour” is organized by the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture ROSCONCERT, according to the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As part of the interregional line of the “Great Tour” project, the ballets Catarina ou la Fille du bandit, Spartacus and Dante’s Catharsis and the operas Il barbiere di Siviglia and Lakmé will be toured at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

According to Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, “The main purpose of the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan is to familiarize as many Russians as possible with performances of our national ensembles and theatres. New participants join the project yearly, and we are thrilled that our creative community is an ever-growing one. Thus our unique cultural traditions and our musical and theatrical schools are preserved as well as find new addicts all over Russia.”

The Theatre will go on its first “Great Tour” to Vladivostok to present some large-scale repertoire performances of various styles and genres.

“We are proud to always justify confidence and gain support from the “Great Tour” project again and again! Within this project, we have already toured in Moscow where the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre was warmly appreciated by sophisticated metropolitan audiences. Now we are for the first time going to the east of our big country and we are sure that we will be able to surprise audiences and win their hearts at the other end of Russia. For us, this tour is a higher level because we are bringing five performances for the first time! These include our calling card, the legendary titular ballet Catarina, recipient of the Golden Mask National Award Grand Prix; our pride, the most complicated ballet Spartacus choreographed by the great master Yury Grigorovich, which has been restored in the current season; and the ballet Dante’s Catharsis choreographed by Nikita Dmitrievsky to contemporary composers’ music. Besides, in Vladivostok we will present the comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia, which is a premiere of the season, and the opera Lakmé, which has not been performed anywhere in Russia over 60 years”, said Svetlana Gusy, Director of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Mid-spring will bring a variety of musical events to the audiences of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The chamber program of the Chamber Hall will invite the audiences on a musical journey where they will get acquainted with the unique sound of individual instruments.

“Orchestra Gold” concert will take place on March 30, 2025. Fiery music by Georges Bizet, Robert Elkier, George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Rodion Shchedrin and Astor Piazzolla, conveying the flavor of Spanish, Argentine and African-American rhythms will be performed by a brilliant ensemble in every sense of the word, consisting of trombones, horns, trumpets, a tuba and a rare young instrument, the flugelhorn.

On April 6, 2025, opera soloists and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present an Evening of French music. The programme will include vocal pieces and instrumental works by famous French composers of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, including Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and others.

On April 17, 2025, the winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition in Piano Category, Sergey Davydchenko, will give a recital on the Primorsky Stage for the first time. This resounding victory has made the 19-year-old musician from Rostov-on-Don, a student at the Rostov State Conservatory, a true discovery of the year. The Competition has also brought the musician many touring engagements, including a tour to Uzbekistan, and performances at the Mariinsky Theatre under the conduction of Valery Gergiev.

On April 19, 2025, the Chamber Hall audience will be treated to the “Melodies of the South”, a programme consisting of Latin American and Argentine musical masterpieces. The musicians of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will perform the famous String Quartet No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Tango Ballet by Astor Piazzolla, as well as several chamber vocal pieces conveying a wide range of human emotions.

Special musical events will also take place in the Great Hall of the Theatre.

On April 18, 2025, the “Tchaikovsky – 185” Musical Night will take place, a concert dedicated to the anniversary of the great Russian composer. The soloist of the evening is the winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Davydchenko. The performance of this outstanding young pianist will be accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov.

On April 22, 2025, in commemoration of the Holy Easter, a large-scale Easter Concert will take place as part of the II Far East Easter Festival. Under the baton of Principal Conductor Pavel Smelkov, opera soloists, singers of the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage will present The Lilacs, a cantata-mystery by the modern St. Petersburg composer Alexander Smelkov to poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva and “K.R.” (pen name of the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia). The other part of the programme will be performed by the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. Chants composed by the sacred concert masters Pavel Chesnokov, Alexander Nikolski, Alexander Tretyakov will be performed, as well as the music by famous Russian composers of the 20^th century Nikolai Tcherepnin, Georgy Sviridov, Sergei Prokofiev and others.

The April opera program will start off with exotic masterpieces by the Italian classic Giacomo Puccini. On April 3 and 5, 2025, the lyrical opera drama Madama Butterfly will be performed in the Great Hall, telling a story about the fate of the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. On April 9 and 11, 2025, Turandot will be performed, a powerful drama with oriental tinge. The plot is based on a Chinese fairy tale about a cruel princess who puts to death the suitors who fail to give the correct answers to her riddles. On April 9, 2025, the vivid image will be embodied on stage by the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre and guest soloist of the Primorsky Stage Olga Maslova, one of today’s most brilliant performers of the part of Turandot in the world. The opera playbill of the month will also contain operas for the whole family The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (April 13, 2025) and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 25, 2025), the pearls of Italian opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (April 16, 2025) and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (April 27, 2025). On April 18, 2025, the Chamber Hall playbill will be adorned by the witty comic opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky.

The Theatre’s concert program will surprise the audience with some exclusive events. On April 17, 2025, talented young musician, winner of the 1^st prize and Gold Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Davydchenko will give a piano recital in the Chamber Hall of the Theatre. On April 18, 2025, the pianist will perform again with the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage, as part of the “Tchaikovsky – 185” Musical Night.

The Chamber Hall of the Theatre will hold several more unique concerts. On April 6, 2025, music lovers will enjoy the sophisticated Evening of French music; on April 19, 2025, masterpieces of Latin American and Argentine music will be performed in the “Melodies of the South” concert programme. 

In April, the II Far East Easter Festival will be launched on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, the Festival will open with a performance of a philosophical fairy tale, the most lucid and most lyrical opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Iolanta. The Festival will continue on April 22, 2025 with the Great Easter Concert featuring opera soloists, the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage conducted by Pavel Smelkov, as well as the Combined Chorus of the Vladivostok Eparchy. After the performances in Vladivostok, the Theatre team will go on a tour whose geography has expanded compared to the past years. This year, the Festival route will embrace such cities or towns as Spassk-Dalny, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk and Ussuriysk. A total of 14 performances are scheduled within the Festival.

The April’s ballet program will include the best performances of the classical heritage: Giselle by Adolphe Adam (April 4, 2025); La Bayadère (April 6, 2025) and Don Quixote (April 24, 2025) by Ludwig Minkus; the lush fairy-tale ballets The Sleeping Beauty (April 12, 2025), Swan Lake (April 17, 2025) and The Nutcracker (April 26, 2025 at 14:00 and 19:00) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Some repertoire rarities are also in store, those are, Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Petrouchka (April 10, 2025), which have been recently added to the repertoire of the Theatre. Another outstanding ballet by the composer, The Firebird, will be performed on April 19, 2025 together with the neoclassical Phaedra.

Memorable events for the whole family will include “short” operas for the youngest connoisseurs. On April 6, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00) Leonid Klinichev’s opera The Little Prince will be performed. Town Musicians of Bremen to the music by Gennady Gladkov will be on the playbill on April 12, 2025 (at 12:00 and 15:00), and Rustam Sagdiev’s opera The Turnip will be presented on April 19, 2025 (at 12:00 and 14:00).

The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre proudly congratulates Shizuru Kato on his appointment as the Principal dancer of the Ballet Company.

Shizuru is a prize-winner at international competitions and a true favorite of the public. In 2011–2013, the dancer studied at Canada’s National Ballet School. As the first soloist of the Primorsky Stage Ballet Company, he has taken part in tours to Harbin (China), Pyongyang (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Doha (Qatar), Muscat (Oman), and performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and also in Vladikavkaz. 

His repertoire includes the parts of Solor and The Golden Idol (La Bayadère), The Nutcracker-Prince (The Nutcracker), Basilio (Don Quixote), Conrad (Le Corsaire), Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) and many others. All those who have been lucky to watch this dancer on stage could fully enjoy his technical mastery, artistry, expressiveness and virtuosity of his performance. His dance is always captivating, and the audience truly enjoys his every appearance on stage. 

We congratulate Shizuru and wish him new prominent scenic roles and inspirations to conquer new heights!