From December 11 to 14, 2025, the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will present a lavish ballet programme of the X International Mariinsky Far East Festival with the participation of the top dancers from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres. The programme will feature dazzling prima ballerinas, principal dancers, and soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Renata Shakirova, Maria Iliushkina, Konstantin Zverev, Elena Yevseyeva, Nikita Korneyev, Even Capitaine, and Ryoma Hudzeleu, and from the Bolshoi Theatre: Ekaterina Krysanova, Vladislav Lantratov, Igor Tsvirko, Maria Vinogradova, Olga Marchenkova, Mark Chino, Makar Mikhalkin, and Maria Koshkaryova. The Bolshoi Theatre soloists will appear at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre for the first time.
The ballet programme of the Festival will open on December 11, 2025 with a grand Gala concert, complemented by the legendary production of Carmen Suite, performed by Bolshoi Theatre soloists.
On December 12, 2025, the Mariinsky Theatre soloists will perform the lead parts in the ballet Carmen Suite. The Gala concert programmes will consist of choreographic miniatures and concert numbers to music by Auber, Pärt, Pugni, Moszkowski, and Khachaturian which will be performed for the first time in the Far East. The night of December 12, 2025 will be adorned by The Bells choreographed by Yuri Possokhov. All Festival performances will feature soloists and dancers from the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
The events of December 11 and 12, 2025 are dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya’s centennial anniversary. In anticipation of the opening of the Festival ballet programme on December 11, 2025, the audiences will have the chance to see a large exhibition of portraits, performance photographs, and photographs featuring the life of the outstanding ballet dancer, previously stored in the photo archives of the Russian News Agency TASS.
The photo exhibition will be located in the auditorium foyers on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre and will be open to the audiences of all Festival and repertoire performances. It will include rare archival photographs capturing the unique movement, character, and creative path of Maya Plisetskaya, one of the most iconic figures in the world ballet.
On December 13, 2025, the anniversary Mariinsky Festival in Vladivostok will continue with a performance of Don Quixote, featuring Bolshoi Theatre principal dancer Igor Tsvirko and first soloist Maria Koshkaryova.
The Festival will end on December 14, 2025 with Amirov’s A Thousand and One Nights, a performance included into the Golden Pool of the Russian Theatrical Productions. This original production, once staged for the Primorsky Ballet Company, has become the Theatre’s most-toured production. It has already been performed at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, the Tatar Musa Jalil State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Kazan, and also in Qatar, Oman, Belarus, and China. On December 14, 2025, the leading parts will be performed by Mariinsky Theatre principal dancers Renata Shakirova and Nikita Korneyev, and Primorsky Stage principal dancer Lilia Berezhnova.
As a reminder, the opera programme of the X International Mariinsky Far East Festival was held on October 10 and 11, 2025. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra presented in Vladivostok outstanding works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Gustav Mahler, composers whose anniversaries are celebrated this year. The recent high-profile premiere of the Primorsky Opera Company, Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore, was also performed.
