The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is presenting its repertoire until the end of the season. The long-awaited premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet will be the highlight of the playbill. The programme will also contain “The Holidays at the Mariinsky” project, the gala opening of the III Far East Easter Festival, concerts to commemorate the Victory Day, performances by students of the Primorsky Central Music School of the Academy of Arts, grand operas and gems of the classical ballet repertoire, performances for children, and chamber concerts.
April: Large-Scale and Chamber Concerts, the Far East Easter Festival, and “The Holidays at the Mariinsky”
The second month of spring will bring a variety of performances that will delight vocal lovers. At the Great Hall, April begins with Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly (April 1, 2026), a heartbreaking story of love and betrayal. Fans of ingenious plots will enjoy the effervescent production of Johann Strauss II’s operetta Die Fledermaus (April 3, 2026) and Sergei Prokofiev’s operatic grotesque The Love for Three Oranges (April 8, 2026). Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata (April 10, 2026) will set up a lyrical mood. Carmen by Georges Bizet, the iconic French opera full of intense passion and action, will make its return after a lengthy absence (April 5, 2026).
In April, “The Holidays at the Mariinsky” project will feature the much loved children’s ballet Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse) by Rodion Shchedrin (April 2, 2026) and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet-féerie The Sleeping Beauty (April 4, 2026). The series of grand ballet performances will be continued with another masterpiece to the music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (April 9 and 11, 2026).
The gala opening of the III Far East Easter Festival (April 12, 2026) will be the centerpiece of the month. That evening, Tchaikovsky’s mystical drama The Queen of Spades will be performed with renewed vigor in a concert performance in the Great Hall of the Theatre. The series of the Festival events in the Great Hall will continue with an Easter concert by the Chorus of the Primorsky Stage (April 14, 2026).
April will be rounded up with colorful fairytales and comic performances: the ballets Don Quixote (April 16, 2026), The Nutcracker (April 18, 2026 at 14:00 and 19:00), Le Corsaire (April 23, 2026), La fille mal gardée (April 25, 2026), and La Bayadère (April 30, 2026); operas Le nozze di Figaro (April 17 and 19, 2026) and Die Zauberflöte (April 26, 2026) will also be performed.
The playbill of the Chamber Hall will contain the long-awaited comeback of Stabat Mater concert programme, performed by the Chamber Orchestra and accompanied by sand animation (April 10, 2026). Younger audiences will be treated to The Little Prince, a philosophical tale about such eternal values as friendship, care, love, and responsibility (April 11, 2026). On the evening of the same day (April 11, 2026), young musicians, alumni of the Primorsky Central Music School of the Academy of Arts, will perform on the Chamber Hall stage, accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage under the baton of Pavel Smelkov.
May: Victory Day Concerts, Classical Fairytales and Avant-garde Ballets, and the Long-Awaited Premiere of Romeo and Juliet
The final month of the season is traditionally abundant with a variety of performances and chamber programmes.
The long-awaited premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, revised by Eldar Aliev (May 29, 30, and 31, 2026), will come as the highlight of the month. This production will be the second ballet premiere of the season. The Set Designer of the production is Semyon Pastukh, and the Costume Designer is Liliya Khismatullina.
May will open with the spring fairy tale The Snow Maiden (May 1, 2026). The festive mood will be enhanced by the popular characters from the operetta Die Fledermaus (May 7, 2026) and the opera Eugene Onegin (May 9, 2026). The season will culminate with opera performances at the Great Hall of the Primorsky Stage: the recent premiere of The Story of Kai and Gerda (May 13, 2026), Pagliacci (May 15, 2026), La traviata (May 17, 2026), and The Love for Three Oranges (May 20, 2026).
May also has some great ballet performances in store: the long-awaited A Thousand and One Nights (May 2, 3, and 16, 2026), the romantic Le Corsaire (May 8, 2026), Giselle (May 10, 2026), and Raymonda (May 14, 2026), the avant-garde Les Noces and Petrouchka (May 21, 2026), and the neoclassical Carmen Suite and Phaedra (May 23, 2026).
The May playbill of the Chamber Hall will include the traditional concerts “Songs of the War Years”, timed to coincide with the Victory Day celebrations (May 7 and 8, 2026), as well as performances for the whole family: Town Musicians of Bremen (May 2 and 16, 2026), Murych the Cat (May 3, 2026), The Turnip (May 10, 2026), and The Little Prince (May 23, 2026).
